[CHAR] Central Park East - (High School Slice of Life)

[JustAnna]

Name: Hayden Rhodes
Age: 17
Class: Senior
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
New here?: Yes (second semester)
Appearance:
Favorite class: English Lit
GPA: 3.7
Personality: He's quiet and cunning. He could get whatever he wanted by simply smiling, and giving a polite wink. However, he doesn't use it to his advantage, like he used to. Since his mother died, he has changed. He's now more reserved. He understands that life is not given, and his mother's last words still ring in his head, "Let people in, but don't let them in for the wrong reasons. You'll be happier that way."

So, now, he drowns his memories of his mother in vodka, which he carries in a soda bottle on the side of his backpack. He has allowed his hair to grow past what his father would normally allow, not like he would care. He's developed a taste for tattoos and piercings, and cigarettes...and music (guitar mostly).

History:
Hayden grew up in a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. His mother was a teacher, there and his father a car salesman. Their family was the normal, white picket fence suburban family. He was clean cut, proper, had the perfect little blonde girlfriend, and made perfect grades in school.

That's when the cancer took over. His mother went from laughing, and enjoying her life, to agony, every single moment. The only good that he could remember, was that the cancer moved quickly, and didn't slowly eat away at her, as it would most unfortunates. Within six months, his mother was dead. His father moved quickly, taking a job in Manhattan working some fancy white collar shit, married a secretary of the same firm, and uprooted Hayden and everything he knew, to be closer to her.

Now, he doesn't see his father, outside of their weekly dinner at home, which typically includes the whore. Hayden would much rather just be alone, and away from the old man, but alas, he's stuck with him for another seven months or so, in this concrete jungle.

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Name: Abraham "Abe" Buckner
Age: 41
Class: English Lit Teacher
Hometown: Ocala, Florida
New here? Yes (First Semester)
Appearance:
Personality: Calm, Cool, and collected. He's from Ocala, Florida, where he was regarded as the teacher all the students could go to with their problems. He's understanding and very forgiving, making him stand out as 'that' teacher. The other teachers envy or hate him, depending on their views.

History: He's back in the city. Abe grew up in NYC, moving away when his father moved for the Air Force, enlisting rather late in life. Abe spent time in many countries, only to settle down in Florida, where he has spent the majority of his adult life.

He graduated with a B.A. in Communications and History, and a Masters in Psychology, where he learned what he knows about analyzing and tailoring his classes to the needs of the individual student (though that is hard at this school, with classes as big as 50 students).

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Name: Ember Gates
Age: 16
Class: Junior
Hometown: New York, NY (Brooklyn)
New here?: No.
Appearance:

Favorite Class: English Lit
GPA: 2.4
Personality: Ember is hard to read, sometimes. She's happy go lucky around a very select few individuals, including her newest friend, Hayden. For the most part, she's a little angry with the world, due to her disposition. She only deals with people when she's forced to.

History: Ember is a lost cause. She's a misfit, if you will, or at least that's how she sees it. She's never had a family, outside of the orphans that she has grown up around. She was born into the system, and unlike many, she stayed in the system. She was born with drugs in her system, and for the rich men and women of New York City, she wasn't the 'ideal' baby to adopt. So, she reached her critical age, and became a foster child.

Her foster parents have been great. They put up with her unwillingness to socialize, and her sneaking out. They've put up with her occasional drug use, and her one pregnancy scare, and have honestly stopped paying attention to her sneaking out, and doing things behind her back. It's expected of her. She's one of 'those' kids.

She met Hayden, his first day at the school. He seemed a lot like her (which she quickly found out she was wrong about) and he forced her to be around him. His constant attention, and unwillingness to leave her be with her thoughts caused her to let him in. When she did, however, she didn't expect the friendship that followed. Now, the pair are inseparable, despite the rumors that surround them.

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[Narcotic Dollie]

Name: Mia Fairbanks
Age: 17
Class: Senior
Hometown: New York City, Upper East Side
New here?: No, she has lived here all her life.
Appearance:
Favorite class: French
GPA: 3.5
Personality: Mia is a kind girl and quick to give encouragement when she feels others need it. She is also very intelligent, thanks to all the private tutoring, but struggles with her history class no matter how much she seems to study. Mia is friendly and relatively well liked by most students, although some people think she spoiled. She has the tendency to be sarcastic on occasion, which can put some students off. Although her parents are very wealthy, Mia likes to dress in thrift store clothes, because she believes they have more personality.

History: Mia Fairbanks was born via planned cesarean section exactly two weeks before her due date, at the insistence of her mother Julia Fairbanks. Mrs. Fairbanks chose this course of action despite a plethora of doctors advising her otherwise, because it was almost summer, and she needed to get herself bikini ready again. Mia’s father, famous neurosurgeon, screen writer, and philanthropist Travis Fairbanks, was so overjoyed that both mother and child made it through the operation unscathed that he bought the family a private island in the Caribbean to celebrate.

As she got older, young Mia was given only the absolute best. She had a closet full of Dolce and Gabbana, the best private tutors in the city, and her own personal chef at her beck and call. It was everything a little girl could hope for, but Mia found herself lonely most days. While her parents loved her very much, they were always very busy and didn’t have much time to spend with their daughter. Because of this, Mia formed a close bond with her chef, Mrs. Rodriguez, who gave her Spanish lessons in between meals. This sparked the youngest Fairbanks’ love of languages and was what made her decide she wanted to be a professional translator when she grew up.

When she turned twelve and had mastered her Spanish studies, Mia acquired a new tutor and began to learn Mandarin Chinese. She studied hard during school and her afternoon lessons, but soon began to struggle in her history classes. Her parents worried that Mia had too much on her plate, so they fired her language tutor and made her focus on her school classes. This devastated their daughter, and she still has never been able to get her history scores higher than a B-. This is also around the time she began to rebel against the prim and proper look her parents had cultivated for her, and began to dye her hair bright colors and wear cheaper clothing.

Languages Know: Spanish and French. Holds a basic concept of Mandarin Chinese.

[Apollosarcher]

Name: Jack Colt

Age: 17

Class: Senior

Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut

New here?: No.

Appearance:


Favorite class: History

GPA: 3.0

Personality: Smart, cunning, and quiet. Jack has always skated by in school, he's absent and daydreams a lot or is on his laptop. He never really makes friends just comes and goes, a lot of guys think pretty well of him and talk to him yet would never say he's a friend. He's polite and kind to everyone, never is involved in any drama always seemed distant. He's a black sheep, some people like to make up stories about what he does and he laughs and just tells it's not true. Yet if one was to know the boy they would know something incredibly different than the laid back guy they know. He's a caring brother, a good chef, and a orphan.

History: Jack Colt was born to Mathias and Cynthia Colt, the same family that had founded Colt fire arms two centuries ago. Thanks to clever investing and saving the Colt family is billionaires, yet the family has been plagued with problems since Jack's birth. When Jack's sister Alice was born his mother died, then twelve years later his father had a massive stroke and passed away suddenly. The servants around the house took care of them. After that death they moved into the family house in New York, distancing themselves from the home that the family had once shared.

They learned to take care of themselves over the years, having only a driver and a gardener at the New York home. He learned to cook and clean, even getting himself ready and getting to the car in time to get school on time. Over the next four years they learned to live on there own with little help. Alice even began keeping the garden and Jack drove them to school.

Yet Jack's hobby, gaming had become something more to him. He'd become a Pro Gamer, even placing in the International Championship in Starcraft Two. He would miss days of school to just go compete or come to school dead tired from the plane rides back. He refused to make friends mostly to avoid anyone finding out about his gaming career knowing it would embarrass his sister. Thus he simply coasts through school, most can pick him out of a crowd and most know how rich his family is yet no one ever talks to him. He simply is part of the everyday routine.

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Name: Alice Colt

Age: 16

Class: Junior

Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut.

New here?: No.

Appearance:


Favorite class: Creative writing

GPA: 4.0

Personality: Smart, friendly, and talkative. Alice is a foil to her brother, going out of her way to meet new people and make friends. She's always smiling and is always optimistic and trying to help others. She does this as a way to forget her tough life and lack of family. She cares deeply for her brother and know the sacrifices he makes for her and appreciates it deeply.

History: Alice's mother died giving birth to her and there father was to busy to be around all the time. She remembers picnics and walks on the estate ground with her brother and father. She remember playing games her brother and the fun they would have in the gardens. Yet after there father died she hated the place, it was full of good memories things she didn't want to remember.

So the siblings moved to New York, into the family house their, they learned how to take care of themselves and be better people. They attended a school rather than have the private tutors, she made friends and so did her brother for a time. Then he got into Professional gaming, she didn't mind it and she enjoyed watching him play at matches and was there the first time he won internationally. She feared what people would think of them if they found out about his gaming career.

Her brother had figured that out long before her and seemed a ghost in school, she hates that he doesn't have friend and worries about him. Still she maintains her studies and does her best, hoping to be a successful author one day. She helps other out around the school as tutor in history, math, and English.

[Roecoon]

Name: Xander Grey
Age: 17
Class: Junior
Hometown: Ottawa, KS
New here?: Yup
Appearance:
Favorite class: History
GPA: 2.0
Personality: Xander is for lack of better words, a slacker. He's more of a go with the flow kind of guy, not taking much of anything seriously. His dream is to be a guitarist, for what exactly doesn't really concern him. His parents are divorced and his mother is nowhere to be found. Xander has...commitment issues. He looks like his mother so his father is pretty bitter towards him, though Xander never holds it against him.
He mostly avoids his father.

Xander spends most of his time aimlessly roaming about, even in school. He enjoy's anything that takes further from reality, music, drinking, sleeping, reading, but not quite to the point of drugs yet. He's not much for movies though, as they don't hold his attention for very long. However he does hold a part-time job as a waiter.

History
In his earlier years Xander was pretty close to his parents especially his mom. It hit him pretty hard when his father told him they weren't going to be together anymore. His father had never told him, but he had overheard stories about an affair. Few about a year his mom did come to visitations, but after awhile she came less and less often. Eventually he realized she had abandoned them. Xander and his father never really mentioned her again. Nowadays His father won't even look at him, Xander has his mother's eyes and her hair, and even her laugh.

After that he spent most of his time goofing off with his friends. Often Xander would sleep at the park or at a friends, just so he wouldn't have to go home. He and his friends had a don't ask don't tell kind of relationship, and that's how he liked it. After a while of financial troubles his dad ( who was in fact a nurse) got a job offer in new york. He decided he had had enough of their house, that was not only full of bad memories, but also falling apart and moved. They now live in a two bedroom apartment together.

[Stargenie44]

Name: Darlene Simon
Age:17
Class:Junior
Hometown: Chicago,Illinois
New here?: No

Favorite class: Biology
GPA: 3.4
Personality: Darlene is kind,out-going,smart and silly. She looks harmless but don't take her for a push over, she can be mean and cut you out of her life really quick. She can be lazy and a procrastinator but she does get things done despite her mood, she isn't to keen on attention, she'll let you know if she wants it and she hates repetitive people so don't be one if you decide to talk to her. Darlene hates giving advice, she's simply not good at, especially if she's never experienced it before. She wants the people to be successful around her so sometimes she might come off bossy. She loves surprises (good ones) and hanging out all night with her friends, impatient and stubborn are a few annoying qualities but, she is very protective of her friends, a huge romantic and, loves to stay up and talk til either falls asleep.

History: Darlene life is simple as it gets, she has two parents and a younger brother name James, she grew up in Chicago and had neighborhood friends that she loved dearly until she was about 14 and one of her best-friends was killed outside of her home from a drive by. Her mother and father decided then that they would move to a better area and moved to Buffalo,New York where she lives there now. Her parents both work at home, since they run an online shop and is currently working on making their first business together for their event photography service. Her mother Sharlene and her Father Damien are both photographers who run by appointment in taking pictures for weddings,birthdays,prom etc. Her brother James is 8 and is an annoying little brat, but she loves him with all her heart, if anyone ever messed with him she'd beat their ass verbally since ya know their kids ...

She also works as a cashier in a retail clothing store where she works to make money for a car. Her birthday is April 9th and she loves the color Turquoise. She likes early mornings because its like she wakes up with the earth, she also likes to binge watch Bobs Burgers and Gossip Girl on Netflix though, she's recently gotten into AHS and she's in love with season one so far.

[Something123]

I guess I'll just post him. I wanted to make a freshman but it was way too hard to find a decent face claim. So I did this instead. I'll probably make one or two more characters eventually...

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Name: Alexander Scot O’Connor III

Age: 17

Class: Junior

Hometown: San Jose, California

New here?: No(has been here for 2 years)

Appearance: Beep boop

Favorite class: Various shop classes and architectural design, and PE

GPA: 2.8

Personality: Alex is lazy, not very good at school, and only really excels in a few subjects. He enjoys, sleeping, partying, the outdoors, and playing video games and not much else. He’s a bit of a goof, screwing around in class more often than not. He enjoys movies, and tries to watch a different one each week, in an attempt to watch any movie that he thinks could be good.

History: Alex was born while his parents were still in college, one for computer science and engineering, and the other for business administration and management. After graduating, his parents both landed comfortable jobs with Google Inc, a young start-up at the time. Unfortunately, this ended up requiring them to move around a lot, causing Alex to have trouble making friends and staying friends with them. Over time, it got easier, with social networking coming into its full strength, and eventually Alexander settled into a group of friends from his past, and friends he has yet to meet face-to-face that he plays video games with and chats with almost constantly.

After almost 14 years of bouncing around, Alexander’s family settled down in New York, buying a large house in the countryside, and sending Alex to the highschool that it appeared he would graduate from: Central Park East. The commute is longer for him than his peers, about thirty minutes, but his parents let him pick the school as repayment for all the moving they’d done throughout his life. It became less of a problem for them once they’d purchase him a car and he was able to drive himself to and from school. Despite his parents’s relatively wealthy status, Alex has a part-time job as a waiter/cook at a small diner, because he dislikes spending their money and would much rather ‘make it on his own,’ as he says.

He hasn’t done quite as well in school as either of his parents did, but he has a fondness of working with his hands, and has done quite well in woodshop, autoshop, and metal shop, as well architecture, where he’s shown a surprisingly coherent understanding of the designing and construction of buildings, both commercial and resendetial. He has a spot on a few different sports teams, and is fond of PE, one of the only classes where he isn’t subject to constant complaining from his teachers due to him messing around a little too much.

In his spare time, he runs a small blog where he reviews videogames, films, and some music.

[FuriePhoenix]

Name: Taylor Leonhart

Age: 17

Class: Senior

Hometown: Orlando, FL

New Here?: No

Appearance:

Favourite Class: Between English Lit and Music

GPA: 3.0

Personality: Taylor always comes across as serious and grumpy (one of those girls who has the ‘resting bitchface’) but deep down, when she gets with friends she has a killer sense of humour that is rather dry. Though that doesn’t mean some of her humour is simple.
Taylor is dedicated to anything that requires her imagination, so she naturally took English literature and music. She also took art, though music is her main love. Her personality also consists of an attitude that will bite you harshly if you get onto the wrong side of her. She’s not afraid to fight for what she thinks is right, no matter the consequences. She gets a lot of her musical personality from her father’s side, and loves to sing and write songs. She uses her history as her source. She usually lets her attitude flow through her fashion sense, which consists of her favourite shorts (unless its super cold, then she'll wear distressed jeans), ripped up baggy tees and random bits of fabrics tied round her tiny wrists. Her hair is bleached to be as pale blonde as possible, and usually un kept (though she does use a brush). She’s usually seen in combat boots that are very loosely tied up.

History: Originally from Orlando, Florida, Taylor grew up loving the warmth of the weather but the coolness of the sea, as her family always lived near a beach. She lived a carefree life, and found her environment always inspired her musically. She grew up with both parents at home and got on well with both of the, which was a rare thing to say considering her friends back home had a tough relationship with either one or both parents. Her father gave her her love for music. She grew up watching him play guitar for a hobby, and seeing how music made them both feel so alive. By the age of 8, she got given her first guitar and was learning to play with her father. However, though she could play a few chords, singing and coming up with lyrics to her dad’s melodies was much more her thing.
By the age of 12, things started to get slightly rocky, she watched as both her parents began to clash heads and argue a lot. Her mother started spending most of her days out of the house and coming home late. Her father spent most of his time locked in his room or at work. He would still be there for Taylor, but she certainly noticed how much her dad was breaking down inside. It soon transpired that her mother was having an affair and filed for divorce, which broke her dad down into a pit of depression. When the divorce was done, her mother remarried soon after. Not being able to live in the same house again, her father and her moved out and moved to Manhattan New York b the time she was 13 years old. Now she still lives with her father, still very close to him but they don’t tend to hang out as much anymore. Though if one or the other gets hurt or needs the other, the other will be there to fight in their corner.

[OfficerHeadbutt]

Name: Nathan Collins
Age: 17
Class: Junior
Hometown: Manchester, United Kingdom
New here?: Yes, just moved.
Appearance:
Favorite class: Math
GPA: 3.8
Personality: Nathan’s intelligence in school betrays his lifestyle outside of it. In school he seems like a good student academically, if perhaps a little frustrated and unmotivated to do anything above the bare minimum. Debate teams and sports club will certainly not be a part of Nathan’s time at Central Park East. It takes a while to get to know him, but when you do he turns out to be a wisecracking and sarcastic know it all, though he does this mainly for the sake of entertaining others, and most of his jokes are self-deprecating, or oftentimes him doing stupid shit just to get a reaction. Already exposed to cigarettes, alcohol and weed during his time in his home country, Nathan’s keen to find the nearest dealer and get his hands on some of the green.
History: Nathan was born to fairly affluent parents, both owning their own small businesses, his father in IT and his mother owning her own salon. As his intelligence shone through in his early years he was pressured to do well, which frustrated him. In the summer between his final year at school in England he experimented with alcohol and weed, and during his final year his motivation to do well was just lost. His parents eventually decided to move over to New York City, both for their own personal business reasons, and to get Nathan away from the ‘bad influences’ he had fallen in with back home in England. He lives in an apartment to himself in Hell's Kitchen while his parents live just outside the city in Long Island. They have keys to his apartment however, and plan on random spotchecks, even when he isn't there.