Name: Kirby Morrow
Age: 18
Gifted?: No
Skills:
Dance- Kirby has a true talent for dance, seeming to have an intuitive sense for rhythm and personal kinesthetic. From Tap to Tango, Ballroom to Hip-hop, Kirby is proficient in a wide variety of dancing arts. He is constantly training himself for his next show, and when he's dancing Kirby carries with him confidence usually unseen in his oddball personality.
Capoeira- Colloquially known as 'dance-fighting', Kirby picked up the martial art during his high-school years and has been training in the style ever since. He finds the activity enjoyable, as it both keeps him fit for more traditional dancing and serves as an outlet for any stress or aggression, but doubts he'd ever be in a situation to actually use the defensive art outside of sparring.
Humor- Kirby is a bit 'off', and he'll the be the first one to point it out. Comedy is his defense-mechanism, and when he's in an unusual circumstance or a stressful situation one can bet that Kirby will crack an ill-timed joke or a bit of self-deprecating humor.
College studies:
Major- Dance
His passion and pastime, Kirby is an astute study in the subject of dance. He not only commits himself to the physical art of expression by way of hours of classes and training, but also dedicating time to understanding the history and creativity inherent to the medium.
Minor- Education
Really his backup plan if dancing for Disney doesn't work out, Kirby approaches his Education studies with middling enthusiasm. He has fair talent at teaching, but by no means a savant of any sorts.
Appearance: Bearing an angular face, large ears, pale blue eyes, and curly orange-red hair, Kirby doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd. He stands at a moderate height at a limber 5'10, his body bearing the grace and athletic build that comes with dancing for the majority of his life. He dresses himself smartly, usually wearing some combination of collard shirt, jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He does, however, have a decent assortment of costumes and tights that he can be spotted wearing if someone catches him on a performance day.
Backstory: Kirby wasn't born lucky, but he ended up there. Put up for adoption soon after his birth, Kirby never had a chance to get to know his biological mother before he was quickly taken in by the Morrows. Thomas and Erik Morrow raised Kirby as best they could, teaching him to pursue whatever passion he wanted to, expectations be damned. And Kirby was happy with the way his life was turning out. His adopted parents showed nothing but love for their son, he was growing up to be an excellent dancer and had found a passion for the activity, and he had made some fast friends which never failed to bring a smile to his face. The world was simple in those blissful days of childhood, and Kirby was grateful for the life he had been gifted.
Unfortunately, high school had to happen. People suddenly thought it was strange that Kirby had two dads instead of just one. That he was a guy who enjoyed ballet and ballroom. Or perhaps everyone had always considered it weird, and were only just getting vocal about it. Regardless, Kirby became a target of many taunts and more than a few bullies. His friends, once an endless well of support, started distancing themselves from him in an attempt to avoid a similar treatment. What had started as name=calling ended up getting more physical, and there were more than a few days that Kirby tried to hide his bruising from his parents; passing it off as injuries from dance or from training. The day he came home with a black-eye, however, was the day that Kirby's parents had decided enough was enough and saw through their son's hasty lies. Though Kirby was unwilling to give up the names of the kids who did this to him, he did accept his parent's insistence on putting him through self-defense classes so that if their son ever found his way into this situation again, he would at least be able to fight back. Enlisting him in Capoeira, Kirby initially trained hard in an attempt to stave off his parent's attempts to get involved. As time wore onward, however, Kirby learned to genuinely enjoy his lessons; his natural talent at dance lending itself very well to the martial art. He made new friends at his defense classes, the bullying seemed to taper off for a time, and Kirby again found resolve enough to be happy with his life.
It wouldn't be until the start of Sophomore year that Kirby would actually use Capoeira. Around the first week of classes, the same bullies who had tormented him through his freshmen year thought it would be a clever idea to reenact the events of last year's beatings. The largest of the lot started shoving Kirby into lockers, hounding him like he did when Kirby was still a freshman, and in response Kirby, as politely as he could, knocked the bully flat on his ass. A teacher was quickly summoned, and both students received weeks long detentions for starting a fight within the first week of school, but Kirby was pretty much left alone by his tormentors through the rest of his high school career.
The rest of high school proceeded in a fairly normal fashion for Kirby. He continued his studies in both dance and Capoeira, winning awards for the former and continuing to rise through belt levels in the latter. The bullies would tease him occasionally, but always from a distance and never within striking range. He repaired a few friendships that he lost freshman year, managed to keep his grades to mostly A's and B's, dated a girl for six months before it ended in heartbreak, stole whiskey from his parent's liquor cabinet with his friends to drown his sorrows in, had a dance-off with a professor at senior prom that is still talked about at his high school, and managed to get his GPA up enough to gain admission into Beacon University.
As a starry-eyed freshman at Beacon University, Kirby can't wait to see what surprises the future hold for him. Couldn't be any worse than high school, right?
Friends:
Holly Hughes-(NPC: Ex-girlfriend and fellow Dance Major)
Desmond Ryle-(NPC: Capoeira Instructor)
Carrie Rushford-(NPC: Best friend and fellow Beacon student)
Thomas Morrow-(NPC: Adopted Father)
Erik Morrow-(NPC: Adopted Father)
Enemies:
Avery Ferring-(NPC: High school bully and fellow Beacon Student)
