Kidd, I have to ask, do you watch rwby by any chance? I love that show so much.
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(When I originally wrote this the character was almost identical to Jo, so I tweaked it a bit; I hope this is alright)
Name: Spencer "Spark" Small
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual, but he's never really thought about it.
Personality: Spencer has somewhat of a nervous disposition, due to an uncomfortable amount of accidents that lead to people being hurt, and it all being his fault. He's friendly enough, and actually has a pretty decent sense of humor when he puts his mind to it... It just takes him a little while to adjust to new people, even when they've been life long acquaintances, or friends in the past. Once he gets used to people he tends to open up a lot more, with a tendency to become more talkative (some would say more annoying, too), when he actually bothers to try and make friends. His main problem, however, is his natural ability to get anxious very easily, working himself up over the smallest details and convincing himself that, if something goes wrong, it's most definitely his fault. His coping mechanism is less than adequate too, as since a young age, Spark has been known to set things on fire as a means of relieving tension and, as much as he would like to deny it, he's a bit of a pyromaniac.
History: Spencer's upbringing was unsurprisingly mundane. His dad worked in an office downtown and his mum, well, she liked to say her job was caring for people, but she was actually one of the worst stay at home mum's in town. Naturally bossy and lazy, she made it her duty to teach her kids the rights and wrongs of life, and, most importantly: how to survive. Or, that's what she claimed, anyway. She'd constantly have Spark doing the most mundane of tasks, like doing the washing up and hoovering, even if it was getting to the point where he couldn't balance chores and homework. He was taught that doing what he was told and obeying orders was always the best way to survive in life, and that talking things out or complaining would only make things worse. He couldn't talk things out, he couldn't do anything to a reaction out of his mother, apart from lighting things up, so that's what he did, and it all spiraled out of control from there.
Fire became Spencer's 'thing', if you will. A way of coping with the everyday stress that a mix of school and home brought onto him. If he ever got low or angry, he just had to set something on fire to feel better again. Well, for a while, anyway. It was this issue that brought more chaos into his life, his mother telling him that he 'had a problem and needed help', his dad telling him that it was 'just a phase'. Everything was just pilling up on top of him: end of year exams, his mother breathing down his neck every chance she got, and he couldn't take it anymore. That was the day he burnt the house down. Literally.
His mother almost kicked out for doing so, but by some miracle his dad talked her round. His home life had been rocky at best ever since. Not that he'd ever complain - the more his parents left him alone, the better he felt. He couldn't accidentally hurt anyone with fire if they weren't around him, right? And so he set to work distancing himself from people, something that wasn't particularly hard when you were are quiet as he was already.
Clothing: White tank top with a dark grey zip up hoodie, black skinny jeans, once-white converse and a black beanie hat.
Skills & Weaknessess: Spark is a doer, not a talker. He's quick to act and follow orders, doing exactly what he's told to the exact letter, with no exceptions. Whilst he's no leader, he's one hell of a follower, and he's not unwilling to do the jobs everyone else is unwilling to do, as he's determined that a job is a job, and it has to be done for a reason. He's quite lean too, and what he may lack in strength he makes up for in speed and stamina, able to run happily for miles if he really had to... He just wouldn't enjoy it much.
Other: He has a lighter that he carries around with him obsessively, other than that I don't think so.
Okiedokie, I hope this fine - I'm also sorry it took so long.
