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Mrs. Helen Deville

_{"Did you know a baked potato with it's skin on is a good source of dietary fiber?"}

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• Name:

Helen Anne Deville

• Age:

67

• Gender:

Female

• Sexuality:

Heterosexual

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• Friendly • Stubborn • Helpful • Secretive •

• Personality:

Helen has always been a very helpful and friendly woman, who was always seen as a mother figure to her students and friends alike. She is a very steady and independent person, working hard for everything she was given and never begging for much in return. In her older age, she has become a little bit short fused and more stubborn and angry about things that she doesn't really understand. When she is on her medication, the woman she once was shines through a bit.

• Hobbies & Interests:

• Doing crossword puzzles
• Light gardening
• Writing letters to old friends

• Likes & Dislikes:

+ Canning Fruits
+ Reading
+ Sunshine
+ Cleanliness
+ Privacy

- Loud noises
- Doctors
- Medications
- Cooking
- Technology

• Other:

Has slight sundowning dementia

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• Biography:

Howard and Helen had a love that was strong, steady, and true. The two were young high school sweethearts, and had to be married just as soon as Howard found the money to slip a ring on Helen's finger. Together they found the home that soon became Rising Sun. It was in a disheveled state when they first bought it but together with lots of elbow grease and patience the two made it shine. Year after year they had many students, numbers in the 50's the two worked as a team to make the youth of the time into upstanding citizens.

Raising everyone's children brought thoughts of having their own children. Time after time they tried but they did not conceive. Thinking that they might have something wrong, they took to a specialist. Both were healthy and young enough to have a child, the problem was all in their head. Trying once more, Helen finally became pregnant with her one and only son; Jack. Jack had been a tough pregnancy on Helen, she constantly felt ill, and was rushed to the hospital early with a premature child. As they raised the child up to show both the parents; the face that they saw caused them both to gasp in horror. Their child had been very disfigured.

Tensions in the marriage became high as Jack grew, he was for the most part a quiet boy but often became mischievous when not given enough attention. During this time Rising Sun classes dwindled down to small numbers of less than 20 children to a year. The drop in attendance caused money to be tight, but Helen fought for the school, she wanted to give a life to children that she could not give her own.

Howard's death was hard on Helen. Emotionally and physically she became weak, and her age was not helping her. Classes became smaller and smaller, and she knew that she would have to retire soon. Not wanting to leave the home she helped build from the ground up, she refused to go to a nursing home and brought in an old student as a caretaker. Though a bit snippy with them sometime she cares for them and enjoys their company in the lonely over sized house.

With her health deteriorating daily, Helen wanted to spend a nice weekend with her last class she taught. With lots of preparation and help from her caretaker, the two put together a very well sized feast, a clean home, and found each and every one of the students to invite.

Soon they would all be together, and reminisce about the past and dream about the future.

[mercenarius]

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Valerie Romero

_{“Yeah, I don’t like it either. But you have to take your meds.”}

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• Name:

Valerie Romero; her friends call her Val

• Age:

30

• Gender:

female

• Sexuality:

Homosexual

• Role:

Caring Caretaker

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• Caring • Loud • Dependable • Afraid of the future •

• Personality:

Valerie sees hard work as the only way to get what you want in this world. She tends to keep herself busy, afraid of wasting even a few moments of the day; although she has tried to slow down a bit since moving in with Ms. Deville. She likes to talk and tends to be on the loud side, but puts in the effort to be quieter when around her old teacher. She is grateful to Ms. Deville for everything that she’s done, and is terrified of what her life will look like after her old teacher is gone.

• Hobbies & Interests:

• Cooking
• Sketching
• Inline Skating
• Element Collecting

• Likes & Dislikes:

+ Good music
+ Beautiful weather
+ Trying new recipes
+ Urban/street art
+ Finding a new element for her collection

- Wasting time
- Watching sports
- Horror movies
- Staying inside for too long
- Intolerant people

• Other:

Fluent in Spanish; estranged from her parents; considers Ms. Deville to be her closest family

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• Biography:

Valerie is the second child of Manuel & Lola Romero, a couple who emigrated from Honduras in the early 1980s. The other children in her class occasionally made fun of her for her non-Americanized family; whenever this happened, Valerie would deflect the teasing toward the poor student or, more commonly, toward Jack. Although she did her best to hide how it got to her, it made her resent her family and her culture for a long time.

Her parents instilled a good work ethic into Valerie from a young age. They encouraged her to pursue her passions; and when she announced a dream of going to medical school when she was 12, they did everything they could to support her. She graduated from high school with honours, and attended the University of New Orleans for pre-nursing with a full scholarship.

While at university, Valerie realized that she was gay; she met another woman, Andrea, in the pre-nursing program, and the two formed a relationship. Knowing that her conservative Catholic family would not approve of the relationship or her sexuality, Valerie kept it hidden from them until her graduation, when Andrea accidentally let it slip to Valerie’s mother. Valerie was immediately forced out of the house, and hasn’t spoken to her parents since. She temporarily moved in with Andrea, but their relationship soon went south as well, leaving Valerie on her own.

Hoping to save enough money to go to graduate school, Valerie registered as a geriatric aide. She worked in a nursing home for a few years before resigning the position, instead signing up with an agency that matched caretakers to people who need them. Because of a shortage in geriatric aides, as well as her exemplary work at the nursing home, she was given the opportunity to choose which case to take - and, upon seeing her old teacher’s name on the list, didn’t think twice about the decision.

Learning about Jack was a shock for Valerie: the first time she was asked to bring food to the basement, she was confused by the request but obeyed without question. Seeing her old classmate, grown up but still wearing his mask, left her without words. It took her a full week to work up the courage to ask Ms. Deville about it; and when she received what was essentially a nonanswer, Valerie decided it was best to stay out of it. She interacted with Jack very seldomly, only venturing into the basement to bring him his meals, and not speaking to him or even looking at him when doing so.

When Ms. Deville asked her to help put together a reunion for her old classmates, Valerie was thrilled, and more than happy to help with the planning. She did everything she could to help prepare for the event, and is looking forward to seeing her old classmates again.

[baraquiel]

Selfish Swan

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Graciela M. Wright

_{You? Better than me? Keep dreaming, sweetie.}

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• Name:

Graciela Miranda Wright | nickname: Grace, G

• Age:

30

• Gender:

Transgender

• Sexuality:

Heterosexual

• Role:

Selfish Swan

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• Brave • Bitchy • Confident • Vain •

• Personality:

Grace can spend her whole day in front of the mirror if she wants to, experimenting with make-up and different outfits that she finds herself beautiful in. She's not afraid to speak her mind about something she's not agreeing to, and is most specially not afraid to break her acrylic nails while punching your face. Since the latter part is kind of unwoman-like, she exudes all her pent-up emotions through her photo-shoots and modeling on the runway. Though fierce, Grace is a total sweetheart and will only treat others on how they treat her back, save for the fact that she always thinks she's better and better looking than some.

• Hobbies & Interests:

• Shopping
• Yoga
• Photography
• Partying
• Posting on social media

• Likes & Dislikes:

✓ Big, strong men
✓ Sweets
✓ Mukbangs
✓ Parties

✗ Hot weather/temperature
✗ Homophobes
✗ Sports in general
✗ Raisins

• Other:

Grace is half-American, half-Filipina. She has a heart tattoo on her butt that she got with her friends when she was drunk years ago.

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• Biography:

Graciela Miranda Wright's family were on their way to America when a sudden storm wrecked the airplane they were riding. Grace, her mother Regine, and older brother Maxim were few of the lucky survivors but there were still many dead, and more missing. Norman, Grace's father, was one of the people whose body was never found despite countless days of the authorities searching. Grace's relatives in America took the family in and helped raised them.

Even at an early age, Grace, then George, knew that there was something wrong about her but just don't know what it was. It didn't help when she wasn't good-looking back when she was a child. She still remembered the time when she tried to give flowers to a girl in a playground only for said girl to look at Grace then from head to toe, gave her that sneering look, and flicked her hair as she coldly laughed with her friends. From that point on, Grace vowed one day that she will be more beautiful than these women and show them who's boss.

Grace found inspiration from the beauty magazines she read while waiting for her mom at salons. When her mom was at work, she used to experiment with Regine's make-up and put on her dresses while admiring herself at the mirror. Regine caught Grace red-handed with lipstick all over Grace's lips while wearing her mother's summer dress. Grace remembered how her mother tenderly laughed and taught her how to properly put on a lipstick. At that point, she has never felt more beautiful.

From then on, Grace would cross-dress and was often sent to the principal's office during her highschool years for "wearing and acting indecent", along with the constant bullying from others. Nevertheless, Grace found loyal friends and graduated high school through hardwork and support from her family. Even while attending school, Grace worked at the sides to save money for her mom and for herself. She continued to work until she finally had enough to afford sex-change operations and feminization treatments to realize her dream of becoming a true woman.

She loved to post selfies of herself and her OOTDs which garnered the attention of several model scouts that earned her a gateway through the world of modeling. Of course, life isn't full of buterflies and rainbows; Grace got rejected in almost all the modeling agencies she went to when she told them she was trans. So when one agency accepted her, Grace worked hard day and night to prove that she rightfully belongs in this industry. As of now she's a full-time model, having appeared in many fashion magazines, walked many runways, even being an extra in a movie or two.

When she got the invitation of being reunited with her classmates back at Rising Sun Elementary School, Grace had second thoughts of wanting to go as she didn't know how they might take it in that their classmate named 'George' goes by 'Graciela' now. After much thinking, Grace finally decided to go for Ms. Deville's sake. Besides, Grace thought it would be very interesting and exciting to see how they'll react when they see her.

[Ejected]

Broke Bride

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_{"Of course I read books... Comic books count, right?"}

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• Name:

Vivian Patrice Booker
_{» Vee
» Vivi}

• Age:

31

• Gender:

Female

• Sexuality:

Bisexual

• Role:

Broke Bride

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• Creative • Reliant • Intelligent • Bashful •

• Personality:

Vivian has always been a very bright and creative young lady. Ever since she was about four years old, she has been creating artwork and little fables that not only entertained her family and kept their spirits uplifted while they were going through times of crisis, but also helped her earn good marks on most of her work throughout school. Though being very kind and warm to anyone who decided to strike up a conversation with her, Vivian was often teased and bullied throughout most of her school years over simple things such as the clothing she wore on her back or how she gifted homemade cards and drawings to her "friends" for Christmas instead of the material items they desired. This obviously took a toll on the young girl; as time went on, her self-esteem and confidence dropped significantly, and she began to spend more and more of her time alone. Even though she is now a grown woman, she still tends to be a bit more reserved and quiet than her peers. She has also grown to be slightly reliant and dependent on her fiancee.

• Hobbies & Interests:

» Drawing | Painting
» Reading Comic Books
» Braiding or Styling Hair

• Likes & Dislikes:

» Superheroes (Black Panther, especially)
» Art, whether it be graffiti or paintings in a museum.
» Peanut Butter Sandwiches
» Expensive Clothing and Jewelry
» Travelling

» Being in the Spotlight
» Villains, both real and fictional
» Crowded Areas
» Cold Weather
» Most Horror movies

• Other:

She is fluent in German and has multiple, small tattoos all over her body.

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• Biography:

Valerie and Patrick Booker met when they were just eighteen years old; Val had worked for her mother's catering business, and the crew was hired to serve food at a wedding. Patrick had also been hired that night to play lead trumpet with the rest of his jazz band. One thing led to another, and after just three months of dating, the couple exchanged vows, got married, and began popping out babies almost immediately. Vivian Patrice Booker was born six years after her older sister on a warm Summer's day, the third and final child of Valerie and Patrick. Growing up in the Booker household was hard for Vivian; because her father was struggling to find a good paying job or jazz band gig, the large family had to survive off of the paycheck that Valerie brought home every two weeks from her catering job.

Because her family had limited funds to work with, Vivian often found herself recycling the same, hand-me-down clothing items and pairs of shoes, borrowing lunch or lunch money from friends and teachers, and even skipping a few showers a week because their water had been shut off. The kids in her class knew all about Vivian's struggles, and teased her about them every chance they got. There was even one point in her life when she'd gifted a handmade card to one of her classmates for Christmas as opposed to the "cool action figure" he'd written on his wish list, and had it torn up and thrown away right in front of her. From that point forward, Vivian decided to stay to herself for the most part; she only spoke when spoken to, kept her head buried in her sketchbooks and comics, and did the work necessary to pass.

As soon as Vivian finished high school, she packed her things and moved states with the person she'd been dating since her first year of high school. This person was the only one in her elementary class who'd never poked fun at her or made her feel like she was unwanted or important. In fact, it was this person who'd lend her lunch or even money, and who'd given her her very first sketchbook when she told them that she wanted to pursue a career in art. They even pitched in a bit of dough to help out with her tuition. She graduated from Spelman University when she was twenty-one with a degree in Art.

Since then, Vivian has secured a job as an art teacher at a local high school. She also works on creating comic books in her spare time. She and her current fiancee ended up taking a little break after Vivian graduated, but they eventually got back together when they were approaching their thirties. Now, they are engaged, and Vivian swears on her life that this person is her true soulmate.

[Rockin Strings]

Logical Loser

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Edvvard Erikson

_{"Things here are strange compared to my homeland."}

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• Name:

Edvvard "Eddie" Erikson

• Age:

30

• Gender:

Male

• Sexuality:

Straight

• Role:

Logical Loser

• Extremely friendly. Very understanding. • Can hold a grudge, clumsy. Hates any mispronunciations of his name (hence the nickname). • Loves to make others laugh. Ninja-like reflexes when something is falling. • Easily angered by certain things. •

• Personality:

Eddie is usually the calm, cool, collected, logical thinker type that tries finding the easiest solution. When not joking around with others, he usually has his nose in a book of some sort.

• Hobbies & Interests:

Reading, building, drawing plans, basically anything that helps with his inventing.

• Likes & Dislikes:

Likes: Bacon, women, comedies, games, TV.
Dislikes: Bullies, criminals, superheroes, when people have their car speakers blaring loud enough you can hear them clearly from at least a block away.

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• Biography:

Eddie came to the class a bit later than the rest. With his strong accent, he was teased a lot. One day, however, while talking to a neighborhood girl, he began making her laugh with a mixture of his accent and selected jokes. He brought these to school and managed to turn a couple of his classmates into friends and get many of the rest to stop teasing him as much. Of course, there were still kids who called him Edward instead of Edvvard but there were always people like that. No matter how much he hated it, that would continue to be a fact. Once he graduated, he found his little neighborhood girl again, only to lose her to a traffic accident a few years later. He teetered on the edge of alcoholism but recognized what was going on before it consumed him. He never quit drinking but he did stop himself from becoming an alcoholic.

The day he got his invitation was a curious day. He had just gotten a promotion at his day job, computer repair man, and was getting ready for another great show at the local bar that night. While driving home, however, he came close to hitting a kid who was running across the highway, had nearly rear-ended a semi, had nearly merged into a motorcycle, it was just a horrible drive home, though better than his drive to work when he had nearly hit a deer, a raccoon, and a possum and had almost ran into a school bus.

The trip to the party was much better. Since he didn't move too far away it was a short hour's drive or so. It was a bit hard trying to find the house from memory but he eventually made it. He just wondered what everyone else was like.

[mickilennial]

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_{“Hey, at least I've retained my sense of humor.”}

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• Name:

Donald Jamieson Laclède

• Age:

31

• Gender:

Male

• Sexuality:

Heterosexual

• Role:

Accidental Athlete

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• Confident • Eremitic • Impulsive • Sarcastic •

• Personality:

Donnie has changed a great deal since his time at Rising Sun. To summarize, Donnie isn’t a man who enjoys the “stereotypical jock asshole” role anymore – though he understands it was because he was that cocksure, antagonistic, and competitive young man that he got as far as he did in as short of a time. He’s thrown away the over-competiveness out the window, though he still holds onto his sense of humor and assertiveness. For those that personally know him they understand the car accident has irrevocably changed him; there is a sadness and sorrow that follows him no matter how much he puts on a strong face for it. For his peers at Rising Sun, they might not recognize him.

• Hobbies & Interests:

» Acting
» Baseball
» Contemporary Meditation

• Likes & Dislikes:

» Cajun Cuisine
» R&B, particularly of the tradtional kind
» Televised Sports
» Travelling
» Writing

» Cars
» Confrontation
» E-Sports
» Talking about “Hollywood”
» Worrying about his daughter

• Other:

Donnie is fluent in French and Spanish.

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• Biography:

Donnie Laclède is a former professional baseball player for the Houston Astros, a team he played for two years before a devastating car accident in 2011 took a major toll on him. He still blames himself for the death of his wife in said accident, finding the injury he sustained after the accident a pertinent reminder of one of the worst mistakes he made in his life and what it cost him. His only child, a daughter named Jennifer was two years old and not in the car at the time. Since the accident Donnie has become a prolific sports personality and television actor – he currently stars in the television show “Equilibrium” about a sports commentator in Los Angeles and the drama that surrounds his life.

But what about his life before baseball and his family? Donnie insists it’s a very boring story and in many ways it is, but it does shed some light on where he came from and how far he has come from who he used to be.

Rising Sun Elementary School was the beginning of Donnie’s competitive drive to be the “best” and for many it seemed that Donnie was the aggressor in their day-to-day lives. He was viciously sarcastic, often teasing others for one reason or another. He didn’t think much of it at the time as he saw it as endlessly amusing, but by the time he was in his late twenties, he realized how absolutely terrible he had been. A unhappy kid who was happy bringing down others to his level; to relish in them to be as unhappy as he was following his parent’s divorce in 1995. But time eventually passed and he made it to a major college on an athletic scholarship and eventually to Professional Baseball.

[alexfangtalon]

Hesitating Husband

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Harvey Colton Lee III

_{You can call me meek and you can say I'm weak. But in that courtroom a fire ignites within me and I WILL rip you to shreads.}

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• Name:

Harvey Colton Lee the Third; Practically everyone calls him Harry though

• Age:

32

• Gender:

Male

• Sexuality:

Heterosexual

• Role:

Hesitating Husband

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• Devoted • Pushover(other than in court) • Brilliant • Insecure •

• Personality:

If one met Harry out in the world with no prior knowledge of who he was the first thought that'd possibly come to mind is that he is a meek mild-mannered chump. That is because he has no confidence in himself whatsoever. Despite this, he has a severe case of the workaholic bug. Once he is given a task, there is no limit to what he may do (as long as it isn't breaking the law) to complete the task. He is also a devoted man and will stick by his beliefs and those he cares for even to his detriment at times. But unless you are told this or witness him on the job, it is likely you'd never know.

• Hobbies & Interests:

Work
Work
Work
Seriously he actually loves his job and would absolutely hate giving it up
He does have an interest in giving to the community and occasionally takes a pro bono case once in a while

• Likes & Dislikes:

+ His Uncle
+ Jazz
+ Being in the Courtroom(He feels more like the real him when there)
+ Pro Bono cases(He likes helping the less fortunate and they tend to be better people)
+ Lemon meringue pie(A common gift he receives for doing Pro Bono cases)

- His Father
- Rap
- The Realworld Villains
- Wasted Time/Potential
- Corrupt Officers/Judges/Lawyers/Politicians

• Other:

Has a very strained relationship with his Father
Takes care of/supports his Uncle

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• Biography:

Harry is the first son of Harvey and Amira Colton. As such he received his father's name and was expected to walk in the direct footsteps of his father. From the moment Harry first opened his eyes to the world three sets of eyes were always watching and caring for him. Those were of his mother, his older sister, and rather than his father, Harry's uncle, seemed to care more about the boy. To clarify there was no scandalous reasoning to this. It's just that Harvey believed he had better things to do than worry over some little tot with his name.

As Harry grew, he quickly understood this harsh reality of who his father was. A man who only cared about what society thought of him and winning anything brought before him. Harry gave his father excuses instead of the other way around. The man was one of the partners of a major law firm in the US. He had no time to take his children to the park or kiss them goodnight or read them bedtime stories. In his place though came Harry's hero. Uncle Gus was the one who watched over the tiny scamp whenever Amira was ill or had things to do. Harry desired to be the kind of man his Uncle was. The type of man who seemed to do as he pleased. A member of a local jazz band as well as a freeform artist (graffiti artist).

Unfortunately, an accident happened which caused the man to be unable to walk. He also could no longer play the saxophone because of not being able to get enough breath to play. It didn't take long for any money the man had saved up to run dry. Harry would beg his father to help Uncle Gus, but each time the man would respond by saying, "He made his choices." and nothing more. Harry couldn't understand why his father wouldn't help his own brother, but Gus, just like Harry, gave Harvey excuses as to why. From then on Harry decided he would be a better man than his father. Helping those less fortunate.

Harry wasn't the perfect kid by any means, but he sought to help those less fortunate in any way he could. Harry became attached to those he helped. Especially the girl who he'd practically went everywhere with since Rising Sun. When high school was over, Harry convinced his mom to help him escape his father as well as provide tuition for both he and his girlfriend. Harry wanted this so he could explore who he was away from the overbearing presence of Harvey. At first the young man wanted to see if there was something for him other than law, but eventually, younger Harvey decided on attending Emory Law School. He hadn't expected it, but he fell in love with the world inside the courtroom. After graduating the two took separate paths and Harry found himself back home joining his father's law firm. A few years later, and Harry's first as well as only girlfriend rejoined his life. One thing led to another, and suddenly the two were engaged. It was almost as if they had picked up right where they had left off and Harry just went along for the ride.

[Marko Ramius]

Shy Stalker

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Benjamin Marks

_{"Truth is often stranger than fiction."}

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• Name:

Benjamin Cain Marks

• Age:

35

• Gender:

Male

• Sexuality:

Bisexual

• Role:

Shy Stalker

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• Unyeilding • Pessimistic • Intelligent • Bitter •

• Personality:

Quiet would be Benjamin's way unless he feels there is something that is important to say. A man who chooses his words very carefully he has been characterized as methodical in many instances. Some would say that Benjamin comes off as cold or uninterested, maybe even snooty as if he feels he is better than you. In reality even though he passed by it long ago Benjamin is in many ways still shy. This coupled with the fact that he has a rather grim view of the world and a deep bitterness, most do not see the kind man within. At his core he is fundamentally a kind soul but one who is dealing with demons of his past. He finds small victories in helping others, but he prefers those victories to be personal so no one ever realizes just how much he cares. An while he wants to be more in the eye's of one he loves, he accepts the facts he may never be the man he wants to be.

• Hobbies & Interests:

Solving Puzzles
Strategy Games
Playing Guitar (Acoustic)
Reading
Investigating Conspiracy Theories

• Likes & Dislikes:

↑ Instrumental music
↑ Mysteries
↑ Horror movies
↑ Jigsaw puzzles
↑ Solitude

↓ Dreamers
↓ Dishonesty
↓ Close minded people
↓ Drunk people
↓ Ignorance

• Other:

Benjamin enjoys Philosophical conversations even though most people he has them with in his opinion are about as philosophical as Genghis Kahn was docile. Much of his views in life is based off one philosopher or another and more often than not will relate a life event to something philosophical, even to an annoying extent.

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• Biography:

The culmination of ones life is not based from the way they came into the world but from the way they leave it. These words always even at a young age brought comfort to Benjamin especially for a boy that was born into a world of solitude. Not many know of his family life, he never talked about them and even more so most just thought he was some orphan who had no family and he felt ashamed about it. Truth is stranger than fiction and in Benjamin's case he had a great family. A loving father and a loving mother and in the end he couldn't have been farther from their arms. It was not that he didn't love them in own way it was that he could never truly show it. Benjamin was shy, almost a debilitation in some forms of explanation. He never talked, to anyone, and it was this that kept him distanced from even his mother and father.

In some ways this is probably what lead him down the road it did, down the road to becoming what most people would have considered a creep. Even from a young age Benjamin found a unique way to look at the world, and that view was that in this life there is no true happiness. This point of view was often reinforced time and time again when he was ostracized for never talking and being forced to therapy to solve something that had no way of being solved. His parents never understood, probably because they were in all respects the perfect couple since their high school days. Prom queen, prom king, loved by all and as social as a butterflies through and through. They had no idea how to help Benjamin and in turn they pushed him away in the end only furthering his pessimistic view of life.

This is what lead him to his current life save many untold memories of starting his own Detective Agency. What does one do when they can't talk and their parents push them away? They bury themselves in books and find odd ways of satisfying their misplaced needs. Benjamin had two, one was an obsession that nearly consumed his life nearly driving him mad and the second was puzzles, mysteries, things that had no clear solve to them. These things fascinated him to no end and these things took the toll off his troubled mind. Over thirteen years Benjamin has lead the life of a Private Detective, solving the mysteries that people presented to him, crossed lovers, missing people, betrayal, conspiracies against fellow man. One might say he had seen it all being in such a line of work. However...

When the invitation arrived on his desk for a class reunion it was obvious he had not seen it all just yet. To say he was one step from tossing the thing the moment he read it was an understatement. He did not relish those old days, the days where he could not speak and he was the silent third wheel to all his classmates. But he could not deny that his teacher, the one who sent the invitation had made his life a lot less hellish in those days. She had been the kindest person to him back than and he felt that he at least owed her enough to show up if nothing else than for her. So he dropped his cases for a couple days or so and took a trip down memory lane back to his childhood haunts. Although in the back of his mind there was another reason, or rather another person that drew him there besides Mrs. Deville. A person whom he had tried to convince himself many times played no part in his life anymore. But like he has said many times to many people, truth is often stranger than fiction.