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About You:
Name: chris.
RP experience: i play two other characters on this board.
Sample RP: Aaron's eyebrow raised. She had a lot of nerve, confirming his idea that he was pathetic for running after her. Unfortunately, one of the disadvatages with Gem is that any perceived submission was a victory in her eyes.
"I changed my mind," he said, barely lacing his words with a sweet venom.
He did, however, need to keep her happy. Whenever he inflated her ego even the slightest bit, he immediately fell back into her favor. He could tell from the smile she gave him that she was not only happy that he came back, but he was indeed in her good graces.
He brushed her seemingly snide remark off. It's not like he hadn't had to pay each and every time he took her out or invited her somewhere. It seemed like her words had a double meaning, though, because she immediately turned around to look at the menu again.
"Okay, Gem. You want to play the game? It's on." So, she wanted to make sure that he knew he was in trouble for ditching her in the hall. And yet, he had been the one to run back to her. She wasn't going to let him live this down, so he'd need to play this game very carefully. He automatically began to formulate a plan, happy when he was finished. They stepped forward in line and Gem placed her order, an iced caramel cafe. He ordered a caramel latte and stepped around her to the cashier.
"Just that?" the cashier asked him, and he almost said yes. However, he'd just gotten back on Gem's good side, so he pointed to her drink.
"And that," he replied, pulling out some money when the woman told him the price. He led the way to a table near the wall and sat down, seeing Gem do the same. They sat across from each other, staring at each other in silence. Aaron took a sip of his drink and broke the quiet between them.
"So, you really want to know what I missed about you?" he asked.
Other:
Your Character:
Full Name: Matthew Allen Van der Woodsen.
Age: 18.
Grade: 12.
Appearance: Unlike his sister, Matt's hair is colored a rather normal shade of blond. He often keeps it cut short and wears it in a messy, "just rolled out of bed" look. His face is angular and defined, and his cheekbones frame his face. His eyes, which are a gorgeous shade of blue, are slightly small, giving him the appearance of squinting sometimes.
As far as body type goes, Matt prides himself on his muscular (but not too muscular) physique. He likes to take care of himself, and his body reflects that. He's well-groomed and usually always smells like one kind of cologne or another.
He's rarely seen in a shirt without a collar, and when he is, it's usually a t-shirt layered over a long sleeve t-shirt. He's most comfortable in jeans, but occasinally likes to go more business casual.
Personality: Matt's the rebellious type, breaking the rules when and where he pleases. One of his vices is smoking, which his sister despises. However, he doesn't let that stop him.
Usually when he goes out, it's to party. He managed to make all the right friends in high school, so he's never at a loss for a party to go to. Another of his vices is drinking, which he does often and well.
For the most part, Matt likes to play basketball to keep himself in shape and is quite good at it; in fact, he's even on the basketball team, which just gives him more opportunites to party.
One thing you should know about Matt: he's very protective of the things/people he loves, including his sister, Cora. He'll fight to the death and even take a bullet for them, which is saying a lot about him. Aside from the ones he loves, it's usually a "screw you" scenario.
Likes: + Basketball.
+ Partying.
+ Drinking.
+ Smoking.
+ Breaking the rules.
+ Goofing off.
+ Going out.
+ Hard alcohol.
+ Girls.
Dislikes: + Following the rules.
+ When people get on his case.
+ Staying in.
+ Broccoli.
+ Beer.
History: Matt was born in Manchester, England to a set of rich parents. Actually, his father did some technical work for a company that expanded into the US, forcing them to move to Minuteson, California.
Soon after they got there, his 3-year-old brother died in the bathtub at their house. Matt repsonded to this by going into shock, causing his parents to put him in a mental hospital for two years. Just when it looked like he was making no improvement, he just...got better one day and went back home. As far as everyone knows, he seems to be fully healed (mentally) from the accident.
What nobody knows is that his brother's death started him on a self-destructive spiral. In his freshman year of high school, he started running with a bad crowd and tried almost every drug in the book, from acid to ecstasy. More nights than not, he'd come home jacked up on some drug or another, but his parents just thought that he was still in mourning. His sophomore year of school, however, he stopped what he was doing and straightened up. He always says that he learned something from his experiences with drugs, but never tells anyone what that was. He even tried out for the basketball team and made it, and this gave him more reason to keep himself clean.
One other reason he straightened up was because his sister, Cora, found out what he was doing and called him out on it. It was a slap in the face to him, seeing his sister cry because of something he was doing. In all of his self-absorbed behavior, he never realized that Cora had been even more affected by their brother's death than he had been, she had just been showing it differently. He resolved to take care of his sister from then on, but what Cora never knew was that she had pulled him back from the edge of addiction to drugs.
Now, he mostly limits his self-destruction to alcohol (lots of alcohol) and smoking. Cora still doesn't approve, but she's not as mad at him for that.
Code word: -correct-
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