Student Lounge - (GENERA TALK)
Oct 15, 2012 20:44:57 GMT -8
Post by aktnova on Oct 15, 2012 20:44:57 GMT -8
Sup, I just joined.
I'd like to participate in this but I have to check my schedule, and also work out what time this is happening in Australian time (yay, conversion fun). I thought I'd put myself down as 'participating' all the same and I'll try to attend.
I kind of rushed this character last night so I'll come back and clean it up if I need to. Scribbled up a picture so I know what he looks like at least.
I don't know much about American schools (especially in the 80's) so I thought I'd make my character Australian too so he has a reason for acting ignorant of things.
Okay.
NAME:
Zachary Ivan Friedrich Orion – just goes by Zach, Zachary or Orion.
QUICK DESCRIPTION/BIO:
Zachary is new to this school and new to America – moved from Australia because of father’s work. Some big rich job. Zach doesn’t care anyway, as long as he keeps getting his allowance and expensive present as compensation for the lack of parental attention. Zachary totally believes that aliens walk among us, like the greys and the reptilians. He’s completely into crop circles and UFO sightings. Orders weird magazines on the subject and buys the weirdo alien merchandise from the back of each magazine. It’s started going further than that lately. Moth man, chupacabra, secret government super soldiers, that kind of stuff. This is the kid who would be chasing up theories about September 11 (except that it hasn’t happened yet). But he doesn’t sing it to anyone who’ll listen – he keeps it to himself. A dark sense of humour, odd dress sense and antisocial loner type behaviour sets him apart from most of the rest of the student body.
AGE/GRADE LEVEL:
17 / Senior
HEIGHT/PHYS. DESCRIPTION:
Fit and dexterous despite skipping gym a lot. Messy dark hair. Very dark green eyes. Got that lovely ‘zombie’ complexion. Wears a second-hand army jacket with lots of nice pockets inside, some he put there himself.
BFF:
(I'll have to look over the NPCs again when I'm less sleep deprived)
ENEMY:
Most everyone, but utterly despising them takes way too much effort. Better to just ignore them like the morons they are.
DATING:
Single. If he has any sexuality for anything he hasn’t revealed it yet.
SECRET CRUSH:
No one.
BEST CLASS:
Photography. Lots of alone time in the dark room. Going out to private places to take pictures of shadows or rusty old bikes. The world made black and white.
WORST CLASS:
Gym. Zach never even attends this class.
HOBBY/EXTRACURRICULAR/JOB:
Scrawling ‘ZIFO’ or various crop circle designs on toilet doors and other graffiti sites. Video games – often found at the arcade. Has a home gaming device. Pick-pocket. Runner, jumper, climber, sneaker. Photographer. Researcher.
TOP 5 BANDS:
Gary Numan, Alan Parsons Project, Jean Michel Jarre, The Police, Pink Floyd.
GUILTY PLEASURE:
Kittens. Oh my god, they’re so cute. Why does mum have a stupid cat allergy and no-pets rule? Fine, didn’t want a stupid kitten anyway.
VICIOUS RUMOR ABOUT THEM:
Psycho, serial killer, robot, space alien, alien robot, serial killing alien robot psycho, zombie. Australian are all convicts. Has no gender. Stoner.
FAVORITE MOVIE:
Right now he’s into The Lost Boys. (He’s going to have so many new favourites in ’88 and ’89)
FAVORITE FOOD/SODA:
Mountain Dew.
DESCRIBE HOME/SIBLINGS/RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS:
Dad works for some big company that makes lots of money. The family started out in Australia but had to move to America. Something to do with Dad’s new promotion. Dad’s never home so he throws money at Zach like it makes up for being an absent parent. Mother is one of those weird people who puts plastic on the couches and doesn’t want anything touched, ever. Always having social gathering with her female colleagues. Thinks children should be seen and not heard. Used to lecture Zach about his behaviour, but now just drinks and takes anti-depressants whenever Zach is giving her once of those ‘headaches’. Not siblings. Zach ignores his parents. They seem content to let him mooch off their money.
TEACHERS DESCRIBE THEM AS:
Distracted, lazy, rude. Some think he’s a genius and should be moved up or put into a special program. These are the naive and hopeful teachers. Most just recognise that Zach just doesn’t want to work or pay attention unless there’s something interesting happening. All attempts to contact his parents fall though, mainly because Zach deletes the massages off the answering machine and burns the letters that come in the mail. His parents are too absorbed in their own lives anyway.
GPA:
Highs and lows. If he likes it he'll do well. If he hates it he won't. Good grades in photography, terrible grades in gym. It goes that way for all his classes. (Not sure what Grade Point Average this translates into)
MOST LIKELY TO:
(I understand this is a thing in American schools, but I don’t know quite how it works.)
CAR/BUS/WALK?:
Walk, or bike. She used to take the motorbike but people kept trying to trash it or steal it.
VICES/JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:
Smoking is for idiots who want to waste their money and are trying to be cool. Drinking is for people who want to act like idiots trying to be cool. Sex seems like a dumb idea – wasn’t there something about AIDS going around?
Zach pickpockets, shoplifts, and graffities the word ‘ZIFO’ on stuff. He’s not been seriously busted of it. Yet.
INVENTORY:
Note book, pen, camera, pocket knife, gum, tinny flashlight, keys, wallet, walkman.
PRIZED POSSESSION:
Photograph of something. It’s blurry as always, but just maybe it’s an alien or a ghost.
(There’s probably a cool story here. I can’t be bothered to think of it right now.)
ALLERGIES/ILLNESSES/DISABILITY:
Mild sociopathic tendencies and acute mercury poisoning. The result is mainly withdrawn and antisocial behaviour, irritability at times.
SECRET:
Apart from the vandalism and stealing? And love of kittens? Not much.
IN SHORT, THREE WORDS:
Antisocial, UFO, weirdo.
I'd like to participate in this but I have to check my schedule, and also work out what time this is happening in Australian time (yay, conversion fun). I thought I'd put myself down as 'participating' all the same and I'll try to attend.
I kind of rushed this character last night so I'll come back and clean it up if I need to. Scribbled up a picture so I know what he looks like at least.
I don't know much about American schools (especially in the 80's) so I thought I'd make my character Australian too so he has a reason for acting ignorant of things.
Okay.
NAME:
Zachary Ivan Friedrich Orion – just goes by Zach, Zachary or Orion.
QUICK DESCRIPTION/BIO:
Zachary is new to this school and new to America – moved from Australia because of father’s work. Some big rich job. Zach doesn’t care anyway, as long as he keeps getting his allowance and expensive present as compensation for the lack of parental attention. Zachary totally believes that aliens walk among us, like the greys and the reptilians. He’s completely into crop circles and UFO sightings. Orders weird magazines on the subject and buys the weirdo alien merchandise from the back of each magazine. It’s started going further than that lately. Moth man, chupacabra, secret government super soldiers, that kind of stuff. This is the kid who would be chasing up theories about September 11 (except that it hasn’t happened yet). But he doesn’t sing it to anyone who’ll listen – he keeps it to himself. A dark sense of humour, odd dress sense and antisocial loner type behaviour sets him apart from most of the rest of the student body.
AGE/GRADE LEVEL:
17 / Senior
HEIGHT/PHYS. DESCRIPTION:
Fit and dexterous despite skipping gym a lot. Messy dark hair. Very dark green eyes. Got that lovely ‘zombie’ complexion. Wears a second-hand army jacket with lots of nice pockets inside, some he put there himself.
BFF:
(I'll have to look over the NPCs again when I'm less sleep deprived)
ENEMY:
Most everyone, but utterly despising them takes way too much effort. Better to just ignore them like the morons they are.
DATING:
Single. If he has any sexuality for anything he hasn’t revealed it yet.
SECRET CRUSH:
No one.
BEST CLASS:
Photography. Lots of alone time in the dark room. Going out to private places to take pictures of shadows or rusty old bikes. The world made black and white.
WORST CLASS:
Gym. Zach never even attends this class.
HOBBY/EXTRACURRICULAR/JOB:
Scrawling ‘ZIFO’ or various crop circle designs on toilet doors and other graffiti sites. Video games – often found at the arcade. Has a home gaming device. Pick-pocket. Runner, jumper, climber, sneaker. Photographer. Researcher.
TOP 5 BANDS:
Gary Numan, Alan Parsons Project, Jean Michel Jarre, The Police, Pink Floyd.
GUILTY PLEASURE:
Kittens. Oh my god, they’re so cute. Why does mum have a stupid cat allergy and no-pets rule? Fine, didn’t want a stupid kitten anyway.
VICIOUS RUMOR ABOUT THEM:
Psycho, serial killer, robot, space alien, alien robot, serial killing alien robot psycho, zombie. Australian are all convicts. Has no gender. Stoner.
FAVORITE MOVIE:
Right now he’s into The Lost Boys. (He’s going to have so many new favourites in ’88 and ’89)
FAVORITE FOOD/SODA:
Mountain Dew.
DESCRIBE HOME/SIBLINGS/RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS:
Dad works for some big company that makes lots of money. The family started out in Australia but had to move to America. Something to do with Dad’s new promotion. Dad’s never home so he throws money at Zach like it makes up for being an absent parent. Mother is one of those weird people who puts plastic on the couches and doesn’t want anything touched, ever. Always having social gathering with her female colleagues. Thinks children should be seen and not heard. Used to lecture Zach about his behaviour, but now just drinks and takes anti-depressants whenever Zach is giving her once of those ‘headaches’. Not siblings. Zach ignores his parents. They seem content to let him mooch off their money.
TEACHERS DESCRIBE THEM AS:
Distracted, lazy, rude. Some think he’s a genius and should be moved up or put into a special program. These are the naive and hopeful teachers. Most just recognise that Zach just doesn’t want to work or pay attention unless there’s something interesting happening. All attempts to contact his parents fall though, mainly because Zach deletes the massages off the answering machine and burns the letters that come in the mail. His parents are too absorbed in their own lives anyway.
GPA:
Highs and lows. If he likes it he'll do well. If he hates it he won't. Good grades in photography, terrible grades in gym. It goes that way for all his classes. (Not sure what Grade Point Average this translates into)
MOST LIKELY TO:
(I understand this is a thing in American schools, but I don’t know quite how it works.)
CAR/BUS/WALK?:
Walk, or bike. She used to take the motorbike but people kept trying to trash it or steal it.
VICES/JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:
Smoking is for idiots who want to waste their money and are trying to be cool. Drinking is for people who want to act like idiots trying to be cool. Sex seems like a dumb idea – wasn’t there something about AIDS going around?
Zach pickpockets, shoplifts, and graffities the word ‘ZIFO’ on stuff. He’s not been seriously busted of it. Yet.
INVENTORY:
Note book, pen, camera, pocket knife, gum, tinny flashlight, keys, wallet, walkman.
PRIZED POSSESSION:
Photograph of something. It’s blurry as always, but just maybe it’s an alien or a ghost.
(There’s probably a cool story here. I can’t be bothered to think of it right now.)
ALLERGIES/ILLNESSES/DISABILITY:
Mild sociopathic tendencies and acute mercury poisoning. The result is mainly withdrawn and antisocial behaviour, irritability at times.
SECRET:
Apart from the vandalism and stealing? And love of kittens? Not much.
IN SHORT, THREE WORDS:
Antisocial, UFO, weirdo.