Name: Zachary Burns
Nickname: Zack, Z
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Year: Senior, 12th
Favorite Subjects: Math & History
Least Favorite: Science
Current Goal: To make friends before starting school in yet another town.
Talents: Athletic, great sense of humor, much smarter than he appears.
Fears: He is afraid of not knowing anyone and being the outcast at yet another school. He’s terrified of never being loved.
General Personality: He is an army brat. He has issues with making friends because he has moved so many times. He tends to be shy when in a new group, which makes getting to know people difficult, especially considering he moves so much, but once he gets comfortable with people he opens up and can be very outgoing. He has abandonment issues, and he is afraid to get attached to other people.
Inner Personality: Once Zack finds people he can be comfortable with, he becomes fiercely loyal. It doesn’t happen often with all the moving but when it does he fights like hell for his friends. While he doesn’t show it, he longs for closeness. He is a much smarter than he lets on.
Secret: He wants nothing more than to tell someone he loves them and have them say it back.
Biography: Its been Zack and his father as far back as Zack can remember. His mother left them both when he was 2 years old because she was tired of the travel and military life. While Zack loves his father, he sometimes wishes his mother took him with her. He hated the travel, 13 bases in 16 years.
Australia makes number 14, but this one is different. His dad fell in love, retired, and married some women Zack had never met. Zack doesn’t mind his step-mother, and doesn’t mind potentially living in one place for more than a year, but Australia is nothing like the US which scares the hell out of him. Either way, Zack is starting over…again.
He has always excelled in sports, especially anything that involves hitting people, or a lot of running. He likes sports because they’ve always been a good way to make friends, and hitting people has always been a good way to let his anger out “constructively.” The only other thing he has been able to keep constant in his life is his grades, he has always been a straight A student.
He and his father moved into town at the beginning of the summer, but Zack has struggled to make any friends. He doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t know where anyone hangs out, and he’s so shy that he doesn’t dare ask. The only person he has really talked to more than once was a girl names Lyn, who works at the local pub. She seems very nice, and has always been kind to him, so he frequents the pub…daily. Other than going to the pub he has been working on an old jeep he bought, trying to get it working before the school year starts.
Zack is still really skeptical about starting school this year. All the other times, even if he was an outsider, at least everyone was from the same damn country! Now he’s in a foreign country, but he isn’t moving anymore so he’ll make the best of it.
Likes: Sports, hunting, reading especially about history, working on cars.
Dislikes: Being the odd man out.