Post by Simon Garrett on Apr 25, 2012 17:35:41 GMT -5
✓►PLAYER◄
Username: Moriarty
Preferred method of contact: Email or PM
How did you find us: Kinda sorta helped with the site?
Codeword: Mama's Boy
✓►CHARACTER◄
Name: Simon Garrett
Nicknames: Batty, That Miserable Little Brat
Date of birth/age: August 19, 1996/16
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homoromantic homosexual
Job: The allowance his parents give him
Degrees/Permits: None Yet
Languages Spoken: English, French, a bit of Russian and Italian
Human or shifter: Shifter
Appearance: PB: Nicholas Hoult
Rather short, naturally slender and with big, dark blue eyes that make him look younger than he is. His hair is naturally a light blonde, but he dyes it dark brown. He’s also got a port wine birthmark on the inside of his left elbow, which if you’re of a generous mind, resembles a flower. Versi has left him with rather pointed ears and longer fingers. It also should be noted that he’s almost always seen carrying his teddy bear.
Personality: Simon Garrett is a mess of contradictions. He was largely raised by his mother and adores her to no end. He adores animals and children and is always happy to spend time with them and amuse them. But he’s also a snarky, sarcastic little bastard with an ego the size of a small moon. He’s a bit… odd, having been home schooled and only rarely encountering children his own age, but he works hard to conceal that fact. His ego is at least a bit deserved, as he is quite intelligent and very aware of that fact (He clings to it a bit, having been raised by parents who valued intellectual achievements above all else).
He doesn’t have much in the way of pity, or compassion, beyond what he feels where those he already likes are involved. He’s a bit terrified of the world at large, and he understands that he doesn’t usually come off well, as he’s had it come up in therapy more than a few times. He knows he can abrasive and sarcastic and that he doesn’t tolerate stupidity and that he talks like a thesaurus. He just generally doesn’t care, unless he has a good reason to. And he’s not brave. At all. If you throw a grenade, he’ll shove someone else on top of it to save himself and he sees no shame what so ever in being a coward.
But if you can get past the attitude and the paranoia, he can be a very sweet young man, especially if you happen to be furry or under the age of 18. He carries a variety of treats for different animals with him, and can be quite generous when he finds someone he likes. While he understands that most people don’t share his fear of the dark, he’s quick to share his massive collection of stuffed animals and flashlights. One of the few places his responses to a question he thinks is obvious /isn’t/ something along the lines of questioning your own mental ability is if it’s a child doing the asking, and he brings home stray animals he finds, for his parents to find good homes for.
Strengths: ~ Intelligent. He may not look it with that teddy bear, but Simon’s pretty smart. He was taking college level courses at 14, and both his parents are lawyers and he’s been listening to them for his entire life. He’s been reading his parents’ law books since he was about ten and wants to be a lawyer himself.
~ He’s a /lot/ more cunning then he looks. He might have been home schooled, but mother is the necessity of all /sorts/ of things, and in this case she sharpened his mind to a razor.
~ Like a Boy Scout, Simon’s always prepared. Maybe not for every eventuality, but he’s always got a variety of things tucked into his pockets ‘just in case’. Batteries, multiple flashlights, emergency money, two different cellphones, spare change and a small first aid kit all have places in his pockets, and even Mr. Bear has a special pouch containing an extra set of AA batteries. If he’s got his shoulder bag with him, he could probably survive the average disaster movie quite handily…
~ Money. Simon and his parents are quite rich and aren't really afraid to spend their money. Not many people are quite aware of just how rich though.
~ His mother. A lawyer, a nightmare if you upset her and Simon's idol. He's very much a mama's boy, and if you threaten her baby, she reacts like an angry mother bear.
Weaknesses: ~ Absolutely terrified of the dark. If he's out at night, you can bet he's carrying Mr. Bear, a flashlight and wearing a headlamp. He doesn't even like sleeping in the dark.
~ He’s paranoid. Not to an extreme degree, but he’s generally quick to think the worst of a situation and he gets jumpy rather easily.
~ Abrasive and frequently just plain unpleasant. He doesn't find it easy to make friends and he doesn't generally like people all that much.
~ Mr. Bear. His teddy bear is sort of like his comfort blanket and if you try to take it away he'll either attack you or collapse sobbing.
~ Can't stand the sight of blood. He can manage if it's just a bit of it, but anything more than a paper cut or small scrape and he starts retching.
History: Simon Garrett was born a normal, if smaller than average child, to a pair of very driven, intelligent and downright ruthless parents. He was brighter than average, attended the Morningside Montessori preschool, before his mother decided to take time off from her career as a criminal defense attorney to home school him. He was a bit of a child prodigy, although not to a remarkable degree and began work on college level courses at the age of fourteen under his mother’s rather demanding guidance. He adores her, and was largely raised under her care, while his father worked. It is from her he learned much of what shaped his personality, not just his sharp tongue and sarcasm, but his love of animals and his fondness for old movies and music. Neither she nor Simon were ever sure where his lifelong fear of the dark originated, but he coped well enough, only going out as long as there was plenty of sunlight and keeping plenty of lights on at the family’s large brownstone. His mother got him into therapy and in the meantime did everything she could to make sure he felt safe.
It is also thanks to his mother that he was infected. While his father specialized in tax law, his mother had been a very well paid and very successful criminal defense attorney. But even the most successful lawyer ends up with cases they can’t win, and it was one of her clients, dissatisfied that she had been unable to get him acquitted of murder, who used Simon to get revenge on her. Maureen Garrett-Schmitt was well known for her opinions on the need for new laws regarding shifters, and for her choice to only defend humans, and it gave them the idea. So, one day when Simon was 11, he was snatched off the streets. His parents filed a missing person’s report, but the police dismissed it as a kid running away. Three days later, he was dropped off at their doorstep in the middle of the night. The men responsible were caught, but it didn’t change what had happened.
But that didn’t stop his parents from loving him, and they did their best to adapt to the fact that their son regularly spent time as a giant bat.
✓►SHIFTER◄
Species: Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus)
Group: Mammal
Conservation status: Near Threatened
Appearance:
Abilities: Slight increased flexibility, much stronger eyesight and sense of smell
Username: Moriarty
Preferred method of contact: Email or PM
How did you find us: Kinda sorta helped with the site?
Codeword: Mama's Boy
✓►CHARACTER◄
Name: Simon Garrett
Nicknames: Batty, That Miserable Little Brat
Date of birth/age: August 19, 1996/16
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homoromantic homosexual
Job: The allowance his parents give him
Degrees/Permits: None Yet
Languages Spoken: English, French, a bit of Russian and Italian
Human or shifter: Shifter
Appearance: PB: Nicholas Hoult
Rather short, naturally slender and with big, dark blue eyes that make him look younger than he is. His hair is naturally a light blonde, but he dyes it dark brown. He’s also got a port wine birthmark on the inside of his left elbow, which if you’re of a generous mind, resembles a flower. Versi has left him with rather pointed ears and longer fingers. It also should be noted that he’s almost always seen carrying his teddy bear.
Personality: Simon Garrett is a mess of contradictions. He was largely raised by his mother and adores her to no end. He adores animals and children and is always happy to spend time with them and amuse them. But he’s also a snarky, sarcastic little bastard with an ego the size of a small moon. He’s a bit… odd, having been home schooled and only rarely encountering children his own age, but he works hard to conceal that fact. His ego is at least a bit deserved, as he is quite intelligent and very aware of that fact (He clings to it a bit, having been raised by parents who valued intellectual achievements above all else).
He doesn’t have much in the way of pity, or compassion, beyond what he feels where those he already likes are involved. He’s a bit terrified of the world at large, and he understands that he doesn’t usually come off well, as he’s had it come up in therapy more than a few times. He knows he can abrasive and sarcastic and that he doesn’t tolerate stupidity and that he talks like a thesaurus. He just generally doesn’t care, unless he has a good reason to. And he’s not brave. At all. If you throw a grenade, he’ll shove someone else on top of it to save himself and he sees no shame what so ever in being a coward.
But if you can get past the attitude and the paranoia, he can be a very sweet young man, especially if you happen to be furry or under the age of 18. He carries a variety of treats for different animals with him, and can be quite generous when he finds someone he likes. While he understands that most people don’t share his fear of the dark, he’s quick to share his massive collection of stuffed animals and flashlights. One of the few places his responses to a question he thinks is obvious /isn’t/ something along the lines of questioning your own mental ability is if it’s a child doing the asking, and he brings home stray animals he finds, for his parents to find good homes for.
Strengths: ~ Intelligent. He may not look it with that teddy bear, but Simon’s pretty smart. He was taking college level courses at 14, and both his parents are lawyers and he’s been listening to them for his entire life. He’s been reading his parents’ law books since he was about ten and wants to be a lawyer himself.
~ He’s a /lot/ more cunning then he looks. He might have been home schooled, but mother is the necessity of all /sorts/ of things, and in this case she sharpened his mind to a razor.
~ Like a Boy Scout, Simon’s always prepared. Maybe not for every eventuality, but he’s always got a variety of things tucked into his pockets ‘just in case’. Batteries, multiple flashlights, emergency money, two different cellphones, spare change and a small first aid kit all have places in his pockets, and even Mr. Bear has a special pouch containing an extra set of AA batteries. If he’s got his shoulder bag with him, he could probably survive the average disaster movie quite handily…
~ Money. Simon and his parents are quite rich and aren't really afraid to spend their money. Not many people are quite aware of just how rich though.
~ His mother. A lawyer, a nightmare if you upset her and Simon's idol. He's very much a mama's boy, and if you threaten her baby, she reacts like an angry mother bear.
Weaknesses: ~ Absolutely terrified of the dark. If he's out at night, you can bet he's carrying Mr. Bear, a flashlight and wearing a headlamp. He doesn't even like sleeping in the dark.
~ He’s paranoid. Not to an extreme degree, but he’s generally quick to think the worst of a situation and he gets jumpy rather easily.
~ Abrasive and frequently just plain unpleasant. He doesn't find it easy to make friends and he doesn't generally like people all that much.
~ Mr. Bear. His teddy bear is sort of like his comfort blanket and if you try to take it away he'll either attack you or collapse sobbing.
~ Can't stand the sight of blood. He can manage if it's just a bit of it, but anything more than a paper cut or small scrape and he starts retching.
History: Simon Garrett was born a normal, if smaller than average child, to a pair of very driven, intelligent and downright ruthless parents. He was brighter than average, attended the Morningside Montessori preschool, before his mother decided to take time off from her career as a criminal defense attorney to home school him. He was a bit of a child prodigy, although not to a remarkable degree and began work on college level courses at the age of fourteen under his mother’s rather demanding guidance. He adores her, and was largely raised under her care, while his father worked. It is from her he learned much of what shaped his personality, not just his sharp tongue and sarcasm, but his love of animals and his fondness for old movies and music. Neither she nor Simon were ever sure where his lifelong fear of the dark originated, but he coped well enough, only going out as long as there was plenty of sunlight and keeping plenty of lights on at the family’s large brownstone. His mother got him into therapy and in the meantime did everything she could to make sure he felt safe.
It is also thanks to his mother that he was infected. While his father specialized in tax law, his mother had been a very well paid and very successful criminal defense attorney. But even the most successful lawyer ends up with cases they can’t win, and it was one of her clients, dissatisfied that she had been unable to get him acquitted of murder, who used Simon to get revenge on her. Maureen Garrett-Schmitt was well known for her opinions on the need for new laws regarding shifters, and for her choice to only defend humans, and it gave them the idea. So, one day when Simon was 11, he was snatched off the streets. His parents filed a missing person’s report, but the police dismissed it as a kid running away. Three days later, he was dropped off at their doorstep in the middle of the night. The men responsible were caught, but it didn’t change what had happened.
But that didn’t stop his parents from loving him, and they did their best to adapt to the fact that their son regularly spent time as a giant bat.
✓►SHIFTER◄
Species: Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus)
Group: Mammal
Conservation status: Near Threatened
Appearance:
Abilities: Slight increased flexibility, much stronger eyesight and sense of smell
