Post by bowen on Jun 27, 2012 17:08:26 GMT -5
* bowen h. matthews ,
* start with basics ,
[ I'M SWIMMING IN THE SMOKE OF BRIDGES I HAVE BURNED ]
[ I'M SWIMMING IN THE SMOKE OF BRIDGES I HAVE BURNED ]
FULL NAME Bowen Hayden Matthews
NICKNAMES Bou
DATE OF BIRTH April 01
AGE eighteen
GRADE/YEAR college sophomore
ELEMENT earth
SEXUALITY closeted bisexual
MARITAL STATUS single
* into the mirror ,
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
[ AGAINST MY WILL I STAND BESIDE MY OWN REFLECTION ]
CELEBRITY CLAIM Koji Seto
EYE COLOUR brown
HAIR COLOUR a medium-dark brown
HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5'9, 135lb
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES numerous moles, including the three under his left eye
CLOTHING STYLE crazy and bright usually, skinny jeans in every color in the rainbow, hoodies, graphic tees, blazers, scarves, etc. Not to mention an array of shoes and boots of just as many colors.
* deeper than skin ,
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
[ TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE INSIDE & THROW IT ALL AWAY ]
POSITIVE TRAITS
- friendly and easy to approach - always willing to talk to people, as long as he's not in his tunnel-vision mode
- loyal - his family and friends are incredibly important to him, and he'll do just about anything for them.
- open-minded and accepting - doesn't care what people look like or dress like, focusing instead on how they act and interact with others to form his opinions.
NEGATIVE TRAITS
- stubborn - once he makes his mind up about something it's nearly impossible to get him to change it.
- occasionally tunnel-visioned - can get focused on a project/book/item of interest to the exclusion of everything else around him, making him hard to work with on group projects.
- clingy and paranoid - likes to keep his friends close, but also has the bad habit of worrying if he doesn't get replies from them in what he considers a timely fashion, thinking he's done something wrong to scare them off or make them mad.
LIKES
- bright, vibrant colors
- Broadway shows
- mac and cheese
- afternoon naps
- people-watching
DISLIKES
- when someone else is better dressed
- not being able to see said Broadway shows often
- bland, pale, or washed-out colors
- gym/phys ed classes
- being told he's not supposed to wear skirts
STRENGTHS
- math wiz
- hard to anger
- cooking
WEAKNESSES
- hypochondriac
- can't swim
- tires easily
FEARS
- drowning
- being a disappointment
- running out of mac and cheese
BEST MEMORY The first family trip to NYC when he was seven, and they went to see the Lion King musical. It was there and then that he knew he wanted his life to always be bright and colorful.
WORST MEMORY When he was five, Bowen went to a summer camp, and one day they went to a local lake to go swimming. A couple of the older boys decided to play a prank on him and tossed him into open water that was deeper than he was tall. He panicked and would've drowned if one of the counselors hadn't noticed and rescued him. He hasn't gone swimming again since.
LONG-TERM GOAL To finish college and move to NYC, hoping to work in the theatre business as a costumer.
* past reflections ,
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
[ SOMETIMES I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF MY PAST ]
MOTHER Hana Yamamoto Matthews (44), Housewife.
FATHER James Matthews (47), Bank Manager.
SIBLINGS Aeryn Matthews Whitmore (25), grad student elsewhere; Blake James Matthews (older twin, 18), student
OTHER Rhoslyn Whitmore (8 months), Aeryn's daughter
HISTORY
Growing up Bowen liked to pretend that his parents were a living fairy tale. They met in college, where James was studying International Business, and Hana was an student from Japan studying Communications. After she finished her year there she returned to Japan, and James followed her there to propose, and they married after his graduation. Or so they told their children, anyway. A family tree project in high school showed Bowen otherwise, that Hana and James had married when she was four months pregnant with their first child. Even with the shotgun wedding the family was still happy.
Bou always considered himself a bit special, growing up in a multicultural family as he did. Hana taught all of her children Japanese as well as English, and when they were younger Bou and his twin brother Blake had their own secret language that was a blend of the two. The two were practically inseperable until their teen years started and their interests diverged. Blake had always been the more pragmatic of the pair, favoring sciences, whereas Bou went toward the artistic side of things.
Blake was the first to show signs of being an earth elemental, during junior high. He was in the biology club after school, and even when other club members couldn't keep their plants alive, Blake's thrived. As Blake's powers manifested more and more, Hana admitted to being an earth elemental as well. Bou was feeling very left out at that point, and in a rare fit of anger, accidentally killed all of Blake's plants. Hana wanted to send the pair to Japan and the school she attented, but James instead proposed the Academy instead. He wasn't an elemental himself, but his best friend growing up was, and he knew it wasn't too far from where they lived. So once they hit high school age Bou and Blake were packed up and sent to the Academy, where they've been since.
* puppet on a string ,
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
[ SOMETHING INSIDE ME THAT PULLS BENEATH THE SURFACE ]
YOUR NAME Kara
YOUR AGE 27
RP EXPERIENCE about 3 years now
HOW'D YOU FIND US? thanks to Cassie~~
SECRET WORD Correct
RP SAMPLEOne. Two. Three. Four. Five. Turn.
It's a bad habit of hers, counting the steps she walks up and down everyday, but Marie can't seem to stop. It's like her need to eat things in a certain order, always get dressed the same way, or never wanting to be touched. Those habits, neuroses, of hers annoy her whenever she notices them, but at the same time she feels they're the only way she can keep her life controlled and orderly.
Especially when around her housemates, who seem to thrive on chaos.
One, two, three steps, through the doorway, four, five, six steps, and then the couch.
It seems so easy for them, to laugh and invade each other's space, squeezing onto an armchair meant for only one person as they watch their prefered show of the evening, sharing a bowl of popcorn.
Though she knows they would happily let her press in as well, she can't bring herself to join them. There's a wall between herself and the other three, one that she's acutely aware of, and that's entirely of her own making. She wonders if the others even notice it, or if she's over-analyzing everything again.
Then Anna notices her arrival, snatches the bowl up and bounces over, setting as comfortably against Marie's side as she'd been against Clare.
And though Marie scowls and elbows the other girl, she doesn't actively try to displace her. It's moments like this, when even if her housemates notice the wall, they happily break through it anyway, that mean the most to Marie.
Sometimes Marie wishes she could stop her mind and let herself relax and enjoy everything as clearly as the others do. Maybe some day she'll actually succeed for more than a few moments' time.
