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Michael "Mike" Moretti; First character, wish me luck :'D
Topic Started: Mar 12 2009, 12:09 AM (394 Views)
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Name: Michael "Mike" Moretti
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Throughout his life, a good deal of Mike's spare time has been spent on music or things related to music. He is or has been able to play the clarinet, saxophone, cello, piano, guitar, and drums. His focus has been mostly on piano and guitar, especially since his middle school years. He has also gotten into drugs over the past year; he smokes weed at least once a week and drops acid when he can get his hands on it. He likes using his stepfather's hot glue gun and plastic water bottles to make his own pipes.

Appearance: Mike's most noticable physical feature is easily his hair. He wants to grow it out longer and keep it in a ponytail, but his mother, wishing for him to cut it short, will not hear of it. And so, their compromise is a mass of tangled, curly, dark brown hair that barely touches his shoulders. His eyes are a deep brown, and framed by thick eyelashes and eyebrows the same color as his hair. His right eye is slightly lazy, and will sometimes appear a little uneven if he looks at you from a certain angle. He has a somewhat average-sized nose, but it appears large due to the fact that it does not curve. Above his upper lip is a sparse crop of hair where he has been attempting to grow a mustache, but instead it gives off the impression that he does not shave often enough. He will probably get tired of it and shave it off eventually with the urging of his mother, but the cycle will only repeat itself again in a couple months. Mike is about 5'7" tall, and weighs in at 149 pounds. He is rather fit from biking to and from most of his errands, so he has a decent amount of muscle mass and a high metabolism. He usually wears polos and band tshirts, and during the colder months, he is rarely seen without his favorite navy blue hoodie. He usually wears baggy khaki pants and shorts, having never really seen the appeal of tight pants on men. Besides, his female friends assure him, he really couldn't pull it off.

Biography: In general, Mike is a decent person with good intentions. He has wanted to be a doctor for as long as he can remember, and he is currently enrolled in some of the most advanced science classes Bayview has to offer. Mike is also no stranger to the arrogance that plagues so many other young men his age. In conversation, he will constantly jump in with jokes and references that he will find absolutely hilarious, regardless of whether the others are laughing with him. In arguments and debates he always has to be right, and will sometimes make a fool of himself just to prove a point. Sometimes his persistence will actually help him, but for the most part it just gets on people's nerves. His other main flaw is an almost complete lack of direction. He is never sure of what he wants, exactly, and he has had many regrets and missed oppurtunities in all areas of life because of this. In spite of his flaws, however, Mike is a good friend to those who take the time to get to know him. He is very trustworthy, and if you go to him with a problem you can be rest assured you'll get decent advice and that any secrets will be safe with him.

Mike has had a decent high school experience so far. On his spare time he can be found recording his music, and while it is mostly crap, it is better crap than what he was writing in middle school. He is known by a few different circles, but he doesn't consider himself to be popular or unpopular. His arrogant personality has hindered his ability to make friends somewhat, but he makes no real effort to change it- it "keeps out the riffraff", as he tells those who are close to him. Along with his high school years came the storm of confusion and doubt that all teenagers must face, and he was hit especially hard with it. It was in the midst of this hormonal hurricane that he smoked his first joint. Whether it was the confusion, simple fatal curiosity, or both that caused it, he began to use it as an escape from his daily life, and after a few months he was smoking at least once a week. The weed also helped him find new influences for his music- even his stepsister, Leah, who was more opposed than anyone to her brother's new habit, had to admit that his songs became considerably better when he started smoking weed. He thought about stopping a few times, but he kept coming back for the pleasant lightheaded feeling he got when he was high. Eventually he managed to get some acid from a friend of his, and it is rumored that he trips about once every couple of months. He has had several girlfriends, but never anything resembling a serious relationship due to his indecisiveness. However, this indecisiveness also makes him prone to dating and breaking up with the same girl many times until both he and the girl in question have gotten over it completely.

Like many children that are born in this day and age, Michael was, initially, an accident. After his biological father suggested they have an abortion, Michael's mother, Carol Moretti, decided to raise him on her own. Carol had a well-paying job at a large publishing company and a couple decades worth of savings on hand, so raising a child was never a real financial burden for her- instead, Michael made up for it with the mental stress that comes with the life of a single mother. They lived together comfortably in a suburb of Minneapolis for these years. Michael went through elementary and middle school with mostly good grades, having decided from a young age that he wanted to be a doctor. Times were peaceful for the most part, and while the two weren't necessarily happy, life could definitely have been a lot worse. Mike was eleven years old when he first began playing guitar. Carol enrolled him in lessons, and, thanks to his already rich background in music, he picked it up right away. He began writing and recording songs in his basement, sometimes with help from the neighborhood kids. At this time, his songs were, for lack of a better word, terrible, but he was still only eleven years old. He would improve, and later in life these early recordings would be a source of amusement for Mike and his friends.

Finally, in the summer before Mike entered high school, Carol decided that it was time for a change in scenery. She never had liked living in the suburbs, and she had just been offered a job in her birthplace, St. Paul. As she went through the paperwork that came with moving to a new house and enrolling her son in a new school, Mike spent his last months in his old town playing guitar and spending time with his childhood friends. In the August of 2004, Carol and Michael Moretti arrived at their new home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Within a month after moving, Carol started dating Tanner Bishop, a single father whose daughter, Leah, was also attending Bayview as a freshman. Mike and Leah- awkwardly and reluctantly at first- became friends, and by the time they officially became stepsiblings and began living together two years later, they were quite close.

Advantages: Mike is rather fit, and can handle a good deal of physical stress before tiring out. He is also very good at thinking of unique solutions to problems, and quickly; ideal for a situation where you need to be on your toes. Because he plans to be a doctor one day, he knows a lot about the human body and how it works. This will be quite useful when it comes to injuries.

Disadvantages: Many people find Mike irritating due to his "wit" and arrogance, making it hard for him to make friends; this could also be a huge disadvantage in a situation like SOTF. Furthermore, it is less likely that people will hesitate to kill him if he already pissed them off before the game started. However, those who are close to him know that he is someone that they can trust, so he may be held back by friends who are less capable physically than he is. Mike also has a tendency to let his emotions get in the way of decisions, and when combined with his already confused, fickle personality the results could be disastrous when it comes to the game.
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