Name: Jacen Daniel Trauce
Nickname: Usually Goes by Jacen
Also: JT, Dan, J (these are less used / preferred by him)
Birth Date: 6/23/1996
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Works for Nerd Squad at the local Buy Best
In Depth Appearance: Jacen stands 6'2 in height and weighs around 180 at any given day. He generally wears baggy shorts and tank tops of varying color with an unbuttoned shirt over it. He's got brown eyes and brown hair that he usually spikes. He has a skull with a bandana around its neck tattooed on his left shoulder. For most of his teenage years he's kept himself clean shaven, but lately he's begun letting a little stubble grow out on his face. Nothing too long, but enough to be noticed. Jacen was in a car wreck when he was 16 that left him with a nasty scar on his upper thigh that he almost always keeps hidden. He'll occasionally wear a camo hat but its random when he does and doesn't.
Habits | Quirks | Oddities He sleeps around chronically, even if he's in a relationship.
He drinks quite a bit
he smokes weed when he's at parties
He cracks his neck when he's bored / nervous
Loves to drive fast
Speaks with pretty much no accent
Hobbies: Works on Computers
Playing video games
Collects rings
Likes: Computers
Beer (Samuel Adams)
Pop (Sam Smith, Kanye, 3OH3!)
Sci-Fi Movies
Video Games (Call of Duty, GTA, etc)
Dislikes: Cigarettes
Old music
Old movies
Crocs
His step parents
Musicals
Fears: Being alone
Death
Heights
Having to move back with his step parents
Personality: ♦ Smart ♦ Pessimistic ♦ Helpful ♦ Arrogant ♦
Jacen's personality is very layered and walled. Having had a fairly rough life he tends to guard his true self from most people he meets. His friends truly know him and how he can be. On any given minute he can be the life of the party, excited and excitable, and the embodyment of fun. Should something so much as tip his mood he can become the antithesis of that, moody, sullen, and unmotivated. Also due to past experiences Jacen is not a trustworthy person. He has serious commitment issues and has/will sleep around even when he's in a serious relationship (if he gets a serious relationship). He's terrified of dying, but does plenty of stupid things that would make it seem like he's courting death.
He's extremely helpful and often doesn't know how to say no. He'll go out of his way to help his friends if they ask for it, and even times that they don't. He's a geek/nerd at heart and enjoys working with computers and playing video games. He's extremely competitive, and arrogant. The ease at which he's slept around has done nothing but fuel that arrogance into full blown narcissism, or at least that's how it seems to everyone around him. It is sometimes wondered by the few friends closest to him if Jacen suffers from some form of depression due to his easy mood swings. He's extremely pessimistic and lacks hope in most situations. He holds little regard for law enforcement after the death of his parents.
D E F I N I N G M Y P A S T
History: Jacen was born to Robert and Mina Trauce in San Diego. He lived there for the first 8 years of his life. His Dad worked as a system analyst for a major tech group in California, and his mom was a painter. When Jacen was 8 his parents both died. They had taken a walk downtown to go shopping, and were caught up in an attempted arrest of a nearby criminal by the Police. The suspect had drawn a weapon on the police who returned fire. It's unknown if it was a ricochet shot from one of the cops, or a shot from the criminal, but his parents were both shot in the incident.
Jacen was taken from San Diego where he moved between foster houses. When he was 13 he was moved into his last foster house, the Morrisons. They seemed like a nice enough family, but they weren't the family Jacen wanted. He was in love with computers, while they wanted him to go into accounting like they had. They also tried to get him to change his name to match theirs, but he refused. They would spend lavishly on him, but none of it was enough to replace his parents. Relations between Jacen and the Morrisons got progressively worse as he got older. When he was 16 they caught him sleeping with his then girlfriend, Allison Kathleen. His parents demanded he never see her again, and that he start accompanying them to church with him. He stormed out of the house in a fit of rage, and this was when he crashed his Mustang (one of his step-parents many attempts to buy his love) in a ditch, gaining the scar that adorns his leg. The Morrisons paid to have the car fixed, but didn't relent on their demands. Realizing he had one option left Jacen moved out into a small studio apartment in the same building as Grant. Previously needing no additional funds he had been unemployed, but when he moved out he applied, and was near immediately accepted, as a Computer tech on Buy Best's Nerd Squad.
In addition to his higschool classes Jacen takes supplemental classes at the county Community College.
Extracurricular Activities: He gambles in the back room of the Arcade on Saturday Nights
None others
Extra: I don't really know that any songs have come out this year? But Sam Smith's "Writing on the Wall" was for Spectre which was really late 2015 so I'm going with that.
Anything Else: Nothing of importance.