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| Topic Started: Dec 3 2012, 10:44 PM (250 Views) | |
| Izalaru | Dec 3 2012, 10:44 PM Post #1 |
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Name: Amon Wendall Gender: Male Age: 17 Grade: 12 School: Aurora High School Hobbies and Interests: Exploring, juggling, pyrotechnics, performing, theater and circus arts. Appearance: Amon nurses a mop of shaggy, curly hair two inches short from shoulder length, auburn in color. It frames a prominent but thin jaw, high cheekbones and a broad, but consistently lopsided smile that suggests he does more grinning than real smiling. His complexion naturally darkens around the eyes slightly, but not enough to appear ghastly or unnatural. The eyes themselves are vivid green, with a bright amber streak typical of green eyes. His eyebrows are thick, but he carefully maintains them to keep them smooth and not bushy, and his eyelashes are naturally long. Amon has an 'anti-eyebrow' piercing about his left cheekbone he adorns with a set of pointed studs. Amon has an impressive stature; 6 feet tall and a wiry frame encompassing 160 lbs of weight. Though muscularly well-defined, he does not entirely look as though he eats as much as he should and only a few days of poor dieting can leave him looking gaunt. Amon does not slouch and walks with a careful grace that makes it seem as though he does not touch the ground. This is a deliberate effect practiced for his performances and applied wherever people may be watching him. Without an audience, his pace turns instead to long, aggressive strides. Amon favors dress shirts, preferably in bright colors though black and white still have their place. Other than that, his wardrobe varies heavily - torn jean shorts, mismatched ties worn conventionally or as belts, cargo pants, slacks, bracelets and gloves fill his wardrobe. He tends to wear only one 'accessory' at a time, however, in the interests of practicality, and only owns one pair of black running shoes and not a single pair of blue jeans. On the day of the trip, Amon is wearing a red dress shirt and black jean shorts that extend past his knees, with a thin, loose black tie, and a pair of cheap acrylic fingerless gloves. Biography: Amon's parents met as traveling street performers, and his entire life has reflected that fact. Jamie and Curtis Wendall's exciting traveling life was doomed the moment they knew Amon was coming, but they rose admirably to the occasion. The two buskers set up a fixed circus show in San Francisco and plied their trade as actual ringleaders, by the time Amon born midway through November they'd built a multi-act show around an avid community of circus performers. Born surrounded by a cluster of entertainers, much of Amon's path seemed set early on. Amon was curious and adventurous even in his earliest years, and even before his first days of grade school had a strong tendency to explore and ask questions, usually to annoyed strangers wondering who would let a child run around at a circus unsupervised. A compulsive wanderer who felt his parents supervision was an obstacle to be conquered rather than a rule to follow, the child Amon would delight in finding new ways to explore and make a scene around the home and the circus. He'd often find this difficult, however - where his parents couldn't always have their eyes on him, they had acrobats, gymnasts and magicians they'd employed and sometimes housed to fill the gaps. His parents close friends and coworkers were a constant in Amon's childhood as friends and mentors. Once arriving at school Amon had a strong preference towards Recess and Physical Education and a massive dislike of every other subject. From the earliest years in grade school Amon was learning to skirt homework and minimize effort in favor of more educational pastimes as chasing girls around the playground or learning new tricks on the monkey bars. His parents remained generally laissez fairé about his schoolwork, admiring his hyperactive pursuits as well in line with their own behaviors. As a young student, Amon was well-liked among classmates and often found himself amusing them with stories, or sometimes demonstrations, of circus life, leaving him well-positioned to make lasting friends. Through middle school this was tougher to manage - though he had no real enemies or open detractors, Amon tended to openly rebuke common trends in fashion, music and hobbies, and so others tended to keep him at a distance. Though he quickly discerned the things that set him apart from his peers, Amon was very proud of his interests, his clothes and his hobbies - things he associated with his home, and persisted without much time with his elementary school friends, and in time a more like-minded circle formed for him to be part of, though as he got older he found interacting with the same circle of friends consistently boring. As a result of this disenfranchisement, Amon became more and more interested in the family business. Every act of skill, bravery or dexterity his world had to offer was a challenge he accepted with vigor and he took to performing as early as he found people would watch him - and he often had a new act ready to display. Adept at all kinds of juggling, fire play, and sleight-of-hand magic, Amon soon approached his parents for an official, lasting part of the family show, and was refused. His mother Jamie had a different idea - to bring him to the roots of where she and Amon's father began her career. Leaving the circus in the hands of Curtis, Amon's mother would uproot him from home to show him the life of a street performer, a busker. They would find a new city to call home, enroll Amon in school locally, and make ends meet by busking and contracting out to gigs and shows. Amon, though initially shocked that his mother would propose something so radical, was not hard to convince of this new adventure. Amon was fourteen when this began. They first established in Southern California in Los Angeles County, Amon enrolling in school there and him and his mother taking gigs across the metropolitan area, making contacts and reacquainting with former friends of the family; some of whom became their roommates. Amon specialized in a fire act - breathing fire and manipulating flaming objects, but for tamer occasions he had a bevy of illusions and magic tricks, and was well served as a magician by his ability to play to a crowd. Amon was immensely proud at the success of him and his mother and of the independence it allowed him - but this was in contrast to his school life. Relocating had given him his wish of joining his parents, but had left him in a strange city and a strange school with no friends to fall back on. One spontaneous fire breathing demonstration in the lunchroom and six resulting detentions later, Amon had found his desired place on the social ladder - almost universal popularity, despite the clear association with counterculture that had yielded mixed results at home. Weeks later, the display forgotten, Amon had spent his brief notoriety trying to charm several different girls, only partially successfully, and getting a reputation for philandering. Amon was bored and disenfranchised with high school after a few short months, finding them a stale audience at best, and had a hard time making real friends because of the shallow nature of his socializing. While the life of a street performer became more and more fun, to Amon school felt more and more unnecessary and stressful. Convinced that he was ready to move past the educational constraints of being a teenager, Amon brought up dropping out to his mother. Understanding that being out of school and a wandering street entertainer would make him, essentially, a teenage vagrant, she found another option - online schooling. Freed of the constraint of localized schooling, the two packed up for a change of scenery before Amon had even finished the tenth grade. Amon spent his eleventh grade hopping between tourist hot spots and wherever they were contracted to perform. Amon had a definite preference to busking and working streets - he preferred a closer, more interactive audience, where it was his mother that preferred and did most of the booking for contracted work in theaters and to compliment other shows. Amon's grades improved as they traveled - where Amon had always narrowly avoided failing, when he took his work with him and did it alone at his own pace he found his interested peaked and his coursework more engaging, landing his grade average at a respectable B in most subjects. However, this new course had presented other challenges. Traveling, and still networking with other performers, had introduced Amon to new elements. New hobbies and circus tricks, like knife throwing, or new toys to play with he hadn't yet learned, like rope darts or diabolos and the people who had the expertise to teach him. Not everything new was positive; a life of transience had closely exposed Amon to drugs and occasionally crime, elements his mother was used to from her old days of traveling but Amon had no experience with. Though Jamie initially trusted Amon's judgment, she became worried when he started smoking and more so when he started to come home later and later. Amon had been meeting people as he performed - and they led him to parties, sometimes to drugs and sometimes to trouble. His social life had come to revolve around the people he was performing to and they made up the entire total of his friends for the brief days or weeks he knew them, and each group he met had a strong tendency toward drinking and adventure, in that order, though Amon did not personally engage in any crimes greater than a misdemeanor. Jamie, perpetually afraid of damaging her relationship with her son, felt herself unable to step in and restrain him and relied solely on hope that we wouldn't find trouble. Her hopes were misplaced. On what was meant to be their final nights in New Orleans at the end of April 2011, Amon joined a group for a waterfront excursion near a rarely used river landing. After they played a particularly personal game of truth or dare, Amon goaded his 'friends' into a swimming competition in the dark, the easiest thing to do to sate a particularly strong urge to take risks. Out of a group of seven, only six came back - a girl he'd met that night was missing. Amon and another boy went swimming again to look for her, a completely futile effort in the dark water, not helped by their inebriated state. Though Amon knew he was taking further risks in searching for her, he didn't have any kind of phone and left the responsibility of calling emergency services to the others. He returned with the other boy to the sounds of sirens and were greeted by the police while a formal search and rescue started. Though Amon and the others were held off on questioning during the search, it quickly turned up results. The crack of dawn had not been far off and the girl had been found, unconscious, but was successfully rejuvenated. Amon's worries quickly went from her safety to the consequences of public intoxication as a minor while traveling - he and his mother were not residents of Louisiana and they couldn't afford to be chained to one place with an active court case. Panicking, Amon slipped away from the scene when the police began questioning his friends, overwhelmed with what had almost happened as a result of his recklessness. Upon returning home, Amon told his mother everything that had happened, and what he'd been doing. Jamie, relieved that nothing truly horrible had happened, had decided it was time to set some real guidelines for her son. She told him it was time to settle down again and for him to attend a real school, and he agreed. He felt his lack of a dedicated social life had led to a certain amount of acting out and disregard for the people he'd met. Unable to re-enroll him in the California state educational system due to a difference in curriculum from his online learning, Amon's parents explored state systems and looked for a solution - and found one in a forgiving Washington system. Relocating to Seattle with Jamie, Amon sat his eleventh year tests at Aurora High School, and perhaps a little late, was grounded from the circus until he graduated. Turning seventeen during his twelfth year, the nearly adult Amon has a confidence that comes with experience and it shows in his every mannerism. A born performer who always has an air of the theatric about him, Amon is most comfortable hiding behind a practiced mystique - though once the mask is dropped, rather than losing steam, Amon seems to revel in his true nature as a reckless troublemaker and thrill seeker, as though he suddenly becomes unaware of potential consequences. As a result of his mishap in Louisiana, he has become somewhat more aware of this tendency. Regardless of his state of caution, Amon tends to avoid the worst through some combination of charm and luck. He lives with his mother in a cramped studio apartment, though he is so used to budget housing he barely grasps that it can get better. Amon enjoys a very close relationship with his mother Jamie; despite her trying to become more assertive as his mother she remains very lenient, she knows Amon will always find trouble and has faith in him to deal with it. Advantages: Amon is easy to get along with and a natural leader, with an almost pathological ability to manage a person's perception of him. He is very level-headed, and deceptively analytical and insightful, though he rarely shares his point of view explicitly. Amon possesses incredible dexterity, is in formidable physical shape, and has a broad knowledge base encompassing the basics of certain weapons, pyrotechnics and Kinesiology. Disadvantages: Amon's way of 'putting up airs' can alarm people with sharp instincts. Though generally likable, Amon has not spent much time with people his own age and connects with them slowly. He usually assumes he knows more than he does and tends to overestimate his reach, and resulting failures in the past have made him secretive - another thing making him hard to trust to the already wary. |
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| MurderWeasel | Dec 17 2012, 03:37 PM Post #2 |
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Hiya, Izaluru! Amon's profile is a good start, but he is DENIED pending some editing. Amon's weight seems odd given his height and the fact that he's well-muscled. It puts him on the lower end of average on weight alone, and muscle tends to add a decent amount of weight to somebody. I'm not buying Amon walking as though he does not touch the ground. He may walk smoothly, but on a normal surface people are going to be able to see him and the ground and tell very easily that he is in contact with it. Also, I'd like to know why he varies his walk when people are around, as this implies a lot of conscious effort and seems very unusual. The real issues, though, mostly come from Amon's biography. Letting a young child run around a circus unsupervised isn't an annoyance; it is massively dangerous and illegal. Circuses are subject to inspections and such, and Amon's parents would get in huge trouble for this. I also want to know where Amon's adventurous spirit came from. I'm also worried by Amon's parents shoving him off on people who, by all accounts, sound like they're pretty loosely associated. That speaks to a worrying lack of concern for Amon's safety. "Recess" and "Physical Education" do not need to be capitalized. How did Amon avoid getting in trouble at school? How did he avoid getting held back? How did his parents react to the inevitable phone calls and teacher worry that accompany a child not doing very well? Why did Amon make fun of popular trends? Why was Amon bored by interacting with the same group of friends? Why didn't he try to make more? I'm really, really concerned about Amon's family becoming nomadic. This sort of thing would entail leaving behind a lot of responsibilities, and would make continuing education very difficult for Amon, possibly causing him future problems. Pyrotechnics are incredibly dangerous and in many cases illegal. Involving Amon in them could get his family in big trouble, and the health effects could also be serious (a buddy of mine moonlighted as a fire-breather for a while, and it hit him harder than when he was a chain smoker). Given all of that, I'd feel more comfortable with Amon either having a whole lot more supervision (and ditching the fire-breathing entirely) or ideally focusing more on less dangerous illusions. I can't see a kid being massively popular for getting in trouble. Also, fire-breathing in school would likely result in more than just detentions; depending on the situation it could bring criminal charges and a lot of scrutiny to Amon's family. Online schooling isn't quite as easy as it's presented here; each online program is still tied to a local curriculum, so moving a lot would still mess up Amon's education because his requirements and options would vary based on his current state and county of residence. Again, rope darts are massively, massively dangerous if used incorrectly, since they're basically designed for breaking skulls and stuff. I've seen a light tap of one result in a bruise that lasted for a week. I'm not entirely comfortable with Amon playing with things that have a high potential to result in permanent damage without having some really serious instruction and a lot more detail provided. What were the consequences of Amon's carousing? What happened? What exact trouble did he get into, and what repercussions did he face? What drew him to this? Amon's father totally vanishes from his life. I'd like to know a lot more about him and his relationship with Amon. Amon wouldn't have differences between California's educational system and his online stuff; if, as is implied, his family is still legally residing in California then that's the curriculum he'd be following online. I'd like to see Amon's wandering toned down a little bit, and more detail given to the consequences. I'd also like to see him maybe start at Aurora a bit sooner, because most schools prefer students to enroll earlier on and it doesn't really make sense to not just let Amon finish out his online education if he's only a bit over a year from graduating. Another big issue is that there's very little on Amon now, at Aurora. That's really the most important part of his bio, as it relates to his relationships with the other characters and what they'll know about him, so I'd like to see that expanded a ton (that's the most important thing here, I'd say). Amon's abilities as a leader and in being perceived how he wants should come up in his bio; as it is, they confuse me because he strikes me as someone who follows others into trouble, panics when things get bad, and isn't really good at toning down his behavior even when others will disapprove. His analytic skills should also come up in his bio. Weapon use in a performance setting is very different from in a practical setting, so I'm not really buying that it'd help Amon unless he has other experience that's not mentioned. I'd also like to see Amon have more disadvantages. Right now, all of them boil down to the same two things: He doesn't have many connections/alliance options and he's overconfident. I'd like to see a little bit more to help balance out his significant abilities. Post when you've got Amon edited, and we'll give him another look. Thanks! |
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| Namira | Dec 31 2012, 07:19 AM Post #3 |
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Null sheen.
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