Judas O'Dell
Name
Judas O'Dell
Jude
Age
Twenty-Seven
Gender
Male
Sexuality
Pansexual
Occupation
Unemployed
Appearance
Judas knows exactly how he wants to present himself, and does everything he needs to in order to do so. Wanting to exhibit an aura of 'don't mess with me', the 6 foot tall man wears anything that can reveal the heavy amount of tattoos he has on his upper body and arms. Generally his shirts contain God-awful punk sayings, and his pants are normally too baggy to stay up without a belt. Skater shoes cover his feet, beaten up from the sheer amount of time he's had them. In fact, most of his clothes have holes somewhere in them, the man becoming so attached to certain articles that he can't bear to get rid of them until they're literal strings.
His clothing isn't the only thing that he uses to express himself. White blonde hair sits atop Judas' head, with black roots often showing. Messy, it's almost as if the man is on the move as soon as he wakes up, and he often is. As long as his hair isn't wild enough to get caught in any of his ear piercings, he doesn't really care.
Personality
If you were to ask any member of polite society who knew Judas what he was like, they would call him a punk. A rebel. A man who was just out there to cause trouble. A man who lived by his own rules. Judas, though, wouldn't even deny any of these claims. Given a bad start at life, the man has let the problems he's faced taint his view of the world. The police don't do anything. Other people are only here to screw you over. You have to look out for yourself.
That's what Judas would spout one moment, while the next, he'll turn around and say the only thing that matters is his brother. Both facts to him are true, however. Judas is a rowdy man who locks out the world, until the world crawls under his skin and latches on. Parasites, he says, but he'd die without them. Judas is extremely protective and loving to the people that become those parasites, if you can make it passed those walls that have been building for twenty-seven years.
Biography
Judas would tell you that his bad behavior started twenty-seven years ago, and not of his own accord. He was born to a Nathaniel and Brittany O'Dell - a duo of drug users who somehow had enough stable income to keep a run-down apartment roof over their heads. It wasn't a life he wished on anyone, even when he was little. Abuse, neglect, hunger...Those were the things waiting for him every day. At least, until there was another mouth to feed.
His life completely changed with the birth of his baby brother. Five years old at the time, it took no time at all for Judas to become protective over his little brother. Julius O'Dell, the only thing worth protecting in this world.
Their life was a simple one. Try to survive in a hate filled world. It was so hard, those first years. Their mother helped when she was sober, but that wasn't often. It wouldn't be forever, either. The boys lost their mother when Judas was ten years old, to a drug overdose. Just as they did for the rest of his life, the authorities failed them here. They didn't see the problem, with the way that the two boys were living. They didn't see the abuse or the trauma that this life had already inflicted on them. All they saw was a man struggling to survive, and all they heard was his pleas to let him keep his sons.
From that moment forwards, Judas did everything he could to get out of that house. Working any odd job he could find, he wasn't against helping the shadiest of people if it meant a quick buck. Falling in with the wrong crowds, it was only a matter of time before the boy dropped out of school to pursue a career in petty theft, landing himself in Juvie. From that moment on, he made a record for himself with the police of Chicago, and a name for himself on the streets.
Everything was going alright, at least, until he fell into the same situation his father was in. Drugs became his life, and it was only due to Julius' begging that he went to get himself help. Drug-free now, Judas does all he can to stay that way, while supporting his brother to have a brighter future than he ever dreamed for himself.
FC | Richard Colson Baker / Color code | C23737
Other
- This character is not disposable.
- Does whatever odd jobs he can find, no matter who it's for. He's made a lot of unsavory contacts because of this.
- Has a problem with authority.
- Used to be a drug addict until his brother made him get clean. He's been clean for a little under two years now.
- Judas dropped out of school at fifteen.
- A heavy smoker, and smells like it too.
