Ink Blood said
Arthur Collins 39 Rare Book Collector/Part-time Professor of Literature Reading and playing chess Arthur thinks in terms of a game. He sees everyone and everything as a giant game and will do his best to plan everything out in his day and gets extremely bothered when something doesn't go according to his plan or is out of his control to fix. He hates being late for anything, and he considers himself being late if he planned to get somewhere ten minutes before he had to and arrives any time after that. Arthur went to a private school for Grade School, Middle School, and High School. He was Captain of the Chess Team in High School. He graduated second in his class and went on to a local University in his hometown, where he pursued a Bachelors in Literature and was also on the fencing and chess team; he also met his best friend, Richie, there. After graduation there, he moved to where he is now for Grad School and his Doctoral Studies in Literature with Richie. Arthur has since completed his studies and has been teaching part-time at the same University he got his Ph. D. from for ten years now along with working at a local museum as a rare book collector. Arthur is a very well-spoken man, making him very charismatic; he is also fluent in Latin. He is a very clever and quick-witted man and excels at strategy games such as chess and even fencing. Arthur is fast when it comes to sprinting short distances, but when it comes to running long distances he has very little endurance. He is also not very physically strong at all and can be overpowered easily by a stronger adversary.

Phoenix said
Only if this is still open.I do want to make a sheet for his sister. Would this be possible?[spoiler=Forrest Archer Johnson] 25 Farm hand Singing, Archery Forrest is a quiet man, almost shy. He's not one to make a show of himself, but being 6'3" and built like the farm hand he is, others can't help but notice him. He's sensitive to others' emotions, claiming himself to be empathetic. He didn't grow up in a religious house and formed no formal opinion on the matter. He will pray or use religious profanities due to his sociological experiences. He has a large respect for firearms and dislikes those who wield them unskillfully or disrespectfully. He remembers his middle school years as the most difficult as he was bullied for being a farm boy. He was still small during this time and felt hopeless and alone. He even admits to crying a couple times during those years. However, in high school, he grew quickly. He was approached by his middle-school bullies for joining the football team, but turned them down due to his formed bias and the fact he cared about his family farm more than sports. His father was, understandably, upset by this and needed his wife to explain the reasons behind their son's decision. Girls fawned over his masculinity, but he seemed to never show any care or even notice the flirtation. In truth, he ignored it, being completely uninterested in the superficial world his peers seemed to come from.He was raised to appreciate what he had, as he lived on a subsistant farm that sometimes sold their crops. He knew what real hard work was and would often arrive to school with wrappings or bruises. He learned to hunt quite effectively and became callous to the idea of death for sustenance. He even took hunting further and honed his archery skills by using recurve, reflext, and a self bow he made. These tools mean more to him than the firearms his father provided. He's only ever driven standard vehicles. He also knows how to run and maintain most any vehicle including tractors and agricultural equipment. He also trained in dressage and barrel racing with Hanoverian, Draft, and Quarter Horses. He, personally, raised at least 3 horses of each of these breeds himself and has intimate relations with all of them, but most of all with Buck, the first Hanoverian born to him.His relation with his younger sister is strong and extremely paternal, even more so than their father. She claims to be suffocated by him, but never admits to actually appreciating it. Forrest believes this to be a larger reason to his disinterest in girls: his attention to Willow is so much more demanding of his energy and focus.He's quick to make decisions and is reasonably more educated than most other farmers who make a life of their farm. However, this merely means his knowledge extends further from agriculture and animal husbandry, which he knows quite well. He has a basic understanding of politics, psychology, and sociology. His strongest subjects in school were maths and English. Additionally, he understands well enough that he doesn't know everything, but that others don't necessarily know everything, either. Personally, he feels the ability to relate to other humans to be paramount to responsibility and physical aptitude. He not in the least boastful and despises condescension above all. He was born on the ranch when his mother went into labor too suddenly. They say he was her quickest and easiest birth and not quite nearly as long or painful as his younger sister, Willow Yew. Being seven years apart, Forrest has always been a stronger father figure to her than their own father, Richard Robert. Their mother, Katherine Jeanne James, had also been the light and lovely housewife, but surprisingly taught their children what "real" work looked like.Forrest was taught how to ride, hunt, slaughter, and farm since he was able to walk and knows much about the arts of farming. He also taught himself archery from his grandfather's bow. However, he is not ignorant of the world and its developments. He doesn't show any interests in technology, but is curious enough to learn about it, however minimally. His strengths were in maths, English, and social sciences. Even though he only got an Associate's degree in Liberal Arts at a local Community College, his surprisingly worldly, though he's never traveled outside the state. Through his elementary and junior years, he was small and often picked on by larger children. His father put him to work when the boy got home to distract him, but then told the boy that his work was too great to be lessened by the words and actions of others. "Take pride in your work," Forrest's father would always say.He grew quickly in high school and was the attention of the girls. Ignoring them only made them fawn more. His attention was on his baby sister and his work. His parents pushed him to join an extracurricular, preferably football since the coach and players often approached him due to his size, but being most of them were his bullies, his bias against them was too great to consider such an activity. Instead, he joined the school's Chorus as it took up much less of his time and his beautiful baritone voice was discovered. By today, his father condemned his son's celibacy only through cultural norms. "It's unnecessary," he claimed. Later he would learn this as non-sexuality, or something close to it. He focuses on his work on the farm and helping to raise his little sister in spite of both their parents being alive and well. Will create if requested Automotive, mediation Deep emotional connections created quickly, independence[/spoiler]

Lo Pellegrino said I will review the CS when the background is completed.

Ink Blood said
Sorry for the lack of a post so far, Lo. I will try and have one uo later tonight or tomorrow.

Phoenix said
I don't really know what else to add. I'd really just reiterate what's already been written in greater (and arguably irrelevant) detail. Do you want me to write a kind of story depicting his everyday life? It won't even be longer than the Brief History due to the nature of his life, which is relatively uneventful outside of what I alluded to already.

Let me know what you're looking for so I can accommodate.

Ink Blood said
Not to be nitpicky, but King, in your first post you said Kyle had a pump-action shotgun. In your second post, you said he had a hunting rifle.