Name: Asher Parker
Preferred Name/Nickname: Asher
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Housing Preferences: Someone creative, definitely not someone homophobic. A room with a lot of space would also be nice.
Major: Musical Theater
Minor: Business Management
Extracurricular Activity: Performer. The stage is his home.
What do you feel is your best natural ability? Intelligence.
What do you feel is your weakest natural ability? Spirit
What languages do you speak? French, Spanish
What do you feel your skill set is?
He’s a social butterfly. He loves to chat and has made it his personal goal to become acquainted with everyone in the Theater Department. He’s observant as well as a huge gossip, so he’s a well of knowledge when it comes to people and their dirty secrets. Helps with networking too that he knows people who know people. Of course, it being that he’s new to the school, he doesn’t know a lot of people except those he met at orientation over the summer, during auditions, and college visits. He’s a master improviser and can talk himself out of almost any tight spot.
He’s an excellent singer. He was singing when he barely knew how to talk and dancing when he barely knew how to walk. He knows ballroom, jazz, salsa, tango, hip hop, ballet and tap dancing. He’s quite flexible, but hasn’t been trained in gymnastics, though he could probably do a cartwheel or a flip if asked.
He can read music and play piano decently. He’s better at making up songs than he is at sight-reading.
He can do make-up and hair exceedingly well.
Hindrances:
Bitchy: Whenever he’s in a bad mood, he takes it out on everyone in a very extraverted way. He can become a real bully when this happens. These moods aren’t spontaneous, but who he takes it out on can be.
Jealous: If someone is better than him or more good-looking than him or even wealthier than him, it fucks him up. He can’t let himself get along with them.
Ambiguous Sexuality: He doesn’t know what he wants or likes and he’s never really had a crush on anyone either. It’s the source of a lot of pain and confusion for him some days.
Attention Whore: It’s less of a problem that he likes being the center of attention and more of a problem in that he hates being ignored or talked over. It’s very difficult for him to be inconspicuous.
Helpful Edge:
Female Friendly: He’s an avid feminist and a total Mommy’s Boy. Older women flock to him because he knows how to flatter a woman and younger women flock to him because he acts flamboyant enough to be deemed “safe”.
Acting and Impersonating: He can mimic almost any voice, regardless of gender, after hearing it a few times. As an actor, he can make up characters on the spot and follow through with their personality, accents included.
Improvising: He can improvise in music very well, but he can make up stories on the spot, too. Some call it lying, but he thinks of it as entertaining. Improvising is also used as a means of escape for him, if he’s ever caught somewhere he shouldn’t be. He’s like a MacGyver with words.
Memory: He has an excellent memory from a couple of summers at Shakespeare camp when he was young. He learned how to memorize stupidly long scripts and has utilized that technique for pretty much everything, especially if it’s written.
Vehicle Registration:
Orange 2011 Mini Cooper Convertible.
Appearance: Asher has dark brown hair with a trendy undercut and bangs that stops just above his left eyebrow. He’s not very tall, 5’8.5”, but visibly fit; more for dance than anything else. He has round, green-ish hazel eyes that are very telling to his emotions. He has a fair, light complexion that tans more than it burns.
He never dresses in anything dark or understated and absolutely nothing conservative. He prefers vibrant colors and things that match or go with each other. There’s always some kind of accessory on him, be it a bowtie, a hat or suspenders. It’s hard to see him in the same outfit twice.
Interests: Musical Theater (obviously). Stories, shopping, interesting people, music, parties, performances of any kind, math and sciences
Disinterests: Competitive sports, fighting sports, politics, religion
Asher loves to be the center of attention. He unconsciously follows people around when he’s talking to them and, boy, does he talk a lot. He’s a good listener too, but he’ll quickly monopolize the conversation if it’s getting too boring for him. He can only feign interest for so long, but he never wants to make someone feel bad if he feels didn’t deserve it. He’s either one of the most friendly people you’ll ever meet or your absolute worst enemy.
He’s terribly jealous and can hold a grudge for a very long time. He can be very caddy and spread rumors about someone he dislikes. Anxiety will make him hone in on all the flaws and details of the someone or something that’s driving him crazy and he’ll pick it apart until he’s satisfied with it’s deconstruction.
But he takes excellent care of his friends. He’s an endless source of compliments and treats when he’s around companions. It can be easy for him to be manipulated this way, but he doesn’t count it as manipulation if he knows it’s happening. And then that’s when he can start to hold a grudge.
Laptop- Not high-end, but there’s a lot of bang for the buck that was dropped on it.
Smart phone- He would die without it.
Costumes- For Halloween, parties and personal use. There’s a wide variety of them.
His personal journal- Hidden away from his roommate, regardless of whether or not they’re the type to go snooping.
High school yearbooks and photos of family- Self-explanatory. All of the pictures of his family were taken by his eldest brother, which is why he isn’t in most of them.
His music- IPod and clock radio. He wakes up to something by one of musical heroes, Neil Patrick Harris, Barbra Streisand, Gene Kelly or Rosalind Russell, depending on how he’s feeling.
About a half a dozen of his father’s novels- Which he reads when he’s homesick.
Stage make-up- A shit ton of it.
Brief Bit About Them: Asher has two older brothers and one younger sister that he loves to death and can’t stand in equal parts. He never went wanting in his childhood, except for attention once his sister was born. He was thrilled to go to college, but he’s less thrilled that his college of choice is in the middle of the sticks. Ever since he was a kid in community theater, he wanted to star on Broadway. His parents got him private voice lessons, acting coaches, and signed him up for a dance class as he grew up. He got leads all through middle school, high school and in some of the out of school programs he joined, but it wasn’t until high school things started getting weird for him and the other theater kids. He considers himself a late bloomer compared to the boys and girls that were experimenting backstage. The only kisses he ever gave or received were in character or during a game of spin the bottle. He’s always been too much of a prude to try anything more.
Notes: His father is a best-selling romance novelist. It's where a lot of the wealth in his family comes from.
