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| Topic Started: Feb 1 2018, 07:09 PM (155 Views) | |
| General Goose | Feb 1 2018, 07:09 PM Post #1 |
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Don't cast aspersions on my asparagus.
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Name: Nicholas "Nick" Domhnall Parkhurst Ogilvie Gender: Male Age: Eighteen (18) Grade: Senior School: George Hunter High School Hobbies and Interests: Illusions, reality TV, history (especially Celtic), Scrabble Appearance: Nick is often mistaken for being a few years older than he really is, a misconception Nick encourages. He has a rather large build, standing at 6’3” and at 208lb. He has a brawny and thickset frame, with a healthy amount of fat for his size and evenly distributed muscle. Nick tends to have his rather muscular forearms on display constantly, both to show off his build and his considerable body hair. As a result of his Celtic heritage, he has rather pale skin, green eyes, and a strong Edinburgh accent. Nick is often described as handsome, with his prominent and well-groomed eyebrows being his favourite feature, the only one he admits to vanity towards. He also has chiseled, well-defined features, but his jawline is concealed beneath a rather thick beard. Nick has dark black hair, which seems to be only darker on his face. Nick has been capable of growing a substantial and bushy beard for a couple of years now, and he takes a strange pride in letting it grow out with minimal interference. While he keeps it clean, it is often untrimmed and unkempt, with stray strands of hair left untamed and knots left alone. Nick prefers to wear dark clothing, favouring browns, blacks, and navy blues. He has a particular fondness for waistcoats. He is often seen during leisure hours with a lit cigar, but more to look cool than any actual desire to smoke. Biography: Nick Ogilvie was born in Edinburgh on October 18, 1999. His parents are both accomplished academics, who married in 1994 after meeting at the University of Edinburgh. His mother, Christine, is a Professor in International Relations and a regular fixture in think tanks, journal editorial boards, and lecture circuits. His father, Alistair, is a retired accountant turned professor of business finance with a successful career teaching and researching at business schools. Nick is the second of three children. He has an older sister, Joanne, born 1997, and a younger brother, Willie, born 2000. Both being cosmopolitan and liberal-minded, Christine and Alistair tried giving all of their children as progressive an upbringing as they could manage. All three Ogilvie children were given music and language lessons from a young age, raised on as healthy and scientifically up-to-date a diet as their parents could find, and were given diverse cultural experiences throughout their children. To an extent, this parenting style sometimes veered into the unimaginative. In working out how much time their children should spend without supervision or watching profane television, for example, they consulted academic research rather too much, instead of using their own judgement. Nick owes much to this upbringing: he is open-minded, tolerant, inquisitive, and aware of the world around him, and is all things considered a healthy young man. Nick has a deep affection for various fields of study, from philosophy to physics, and a rational disposition, all things his parents tried to cultivate. The Ogilvies enjoy a largely peaceful home life, with plenty of injokes and friendly teasing, mostly spawned by Christine’s dark and worldly sense of humour and her tendency to act consistently with her Bohemian worldview. There are still tensions within the family, however. Thanks to the aversion to conflict and talents for brushing things under the carpet, they rarely come out in big arguments. The relationship between Nick and Alistair is strained, however, because the two men rarely communicate and, when they do, they tend to talk over and misunderstand one another. In Nick’s mind, Alistair has a tendency, despite claiming to do otherwise, towards being close-minded and materialistic in his views, thinking that non-business fields of study are intrinsically of less value. Nick’s father considers this a caricature, and his advice towards his children, to focus on earning potential of future vocations, to merely be common sense. Being the middle child, he received somewhat less personalised care than his other two siblings, and so found much of his upbringing suffocating. Whereas Joanne is now a self-styled world traveller, currently spending a year abroad volunteering, and Willie has become a nature lover, Nick’s more esoteric and less seemly hobbies did not receive the same level of encouragement. His parents never discouraged any hobbies he developed, but struggled to understand them. Often, when he mentioned a new interest, they would buy him a gift hoping to support it, but would often misunderstand it. When he was ten, for example, he briefly was a fan of professional wrestling. His parents bought him boxing lessons. When he mentioned being a fan of DC at age twelve, his parents assumed he meant US politics rather than the comics company, and embarrassingly themed his birthday party accordingly. Nick always felt he had the worst deal out of his siblings. He gets on well with both of them. However, he disliked being placed under his sister’s frequent guardianship as a babysitter, finding the minimal age difference between the two not justifying the degree of authority she was given. He similarly detested being given the same duty of care over his younger brother, again not thinking the extra year warranted him being entrusted such responsibilities, and being frustrated that Joanne was relieved of such tasks because her exams were always of a higher level than his. Nick did not harbour any serious resentments towards his parents, and admired their overall attitude too much to develop a full-on rebellious streak. He did, however, end up valuing the approval of friends at school far more, unable to view his siblings as peers. At the age of ten, he ended up befriending the popular kid in his class, Ryan McInnis. The friendship with Ryan and his crew gave Nick many benefits. He had a constant audience for his jokes and performances, friends that kept him updated on the inappropriate shows and games his parents did not deem it suitable for Nick to watch, and soon gave Nick an insight into many irreverent class in-jokes. It was at this age that Nick first developed his strongest passion: illusions. Again, his parents did not understand this hobby, mistaking it at first for a predilection towards fantasy literature, and then briefly afterwards for an interest in witchcraft and Satanism. These early misunderstandings made Nick very insistent on clarifying that what interested him was illusions, not magic. Claiming that magic existed is, to Nick, deceptive and dishonest. The friendship with Ryan came to a sharp end in 2013. Nick realised that many of the in-jokes and games he had been buying into amounted to bullying, when a student transferred to a new school due to a series of crude nicknames Nick had played a role in spreading. This caused Nick to reevaluate his whole relationship with Ryan. With little warning and no explanation, Nick severed the friendship. Ryan tried approaching him outside of school, knocking on Nick's door. Nick panicked, and punched Ryan in the face. Ryan laughed it off, interpreting it as an attempt at slapstick that had misfired, a misconception Nick was too cowardly to correct, and didn’t take the hint. Soon after that, Nick's school life declined precipitously. Ryan had not told others about their confrontation, but Nick's mood soured regardless. Nick found himself increasingly an outcast at school, viewed as irritable and prone to mood swings. Christine and Alistair had both been sitting on job offers in the States, and with Nick wanting a fresh start, Willie moving to secondary education, and Joanne consenting to the move, they decided to take those offers. In 2013, Alistair took a job at the business program of the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Christine at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in North Carolina. After searching around for suitable local amenities and weighing up nearby travel opportunities, they settled on Chattanooga as the place to raise their family. During term time, Christine would temporarily reside in Durham as appropriate. Though he is confident he is no longer a bully, susceptibility to peer pressure, borne out of a desire to fit in, is a recurring theme in Nick’s life. He is aware of this, which means he is capable of both a surprising degree of self-reflection on the matter and an unhealthy habit to blame it for his problems. Peer pressure, in Nick’s mind, is the reason he smokes and the explanation for the times later in his teenage years when he’s been insensitive or callous. In truth, Nick does not need much encouragement to make a mistake. He has an off-colour sense of humour, and can sometimes fall back into his old habits of pushing a joke at someone else’s expense too far. If it is receiving a positive reaction from others, he can be, in the moment, oblivious to any harm he’s causing. What is different, though, is that now he does not join in jokes that he can see from the outset that are cruel, and does not knowingly make jokes that press at known sensitivities of others. As a child, Nick would, for example, laugh at the weight or social class of his peers. Now, he does not do so, but if someone commits a social faux pas or has a lapse in common sense, that is when he can be rather cruel with his humour. If pointed out to him, privately, that a joke he had made was unfair or aggressive, he will apologise later. If made aware of any failing in his conduct in the moment, however, he responds far less amiably. His natural defence mechanism when feeling attacked, or when aware he’s done something wrong but too stubborn to give an apology, is to be standoffish and sarcastic. When those mechanisms fail or he’s pushed, Nick can throw a temper tantrum. Despite having the best of intentions, Nick’s foibles mean some people in Chattanooga took a quick disliking to him. By and large, though, he’s a well-liked member of the class. He’s gregarious, quick with a joke, and, provided his insecurities are not triggered, can generally laugh at his own expense. Nick is also known as being rather promiscuous. Openly bisexual since fifteen, Nick enjoys partying hard and sleeping around, but is faithful within relationships. Nick takes pride in his appearance, particularly his beard and eyebrows, and exercises regularly. Nick is a natural performer, and though he does not demand to be the centre of attention, he certainly enjoys it. As he’s grown older, he has become far bolder with his illusions, often using them as the basis for practical jokes or to send people good wishes and happy birthdays. He has founded an “Illusionist’s Circle” at George Hunter High, secretly aspiring to turn this hobby into a vocation. Fearing pushback from parents and teachers, he tells this only to close friends. After graduation, he hopes to take a gap year, hoping to attend some illusionist events and conferences around the country. He insists to his parents, who prioritise academic success above all else, that he intends to go to university after, but he is privately unsure. To relax, Nick has two main past-times: reality TV and Scrabble. He enjoys watching reality TV, and though he tends to keep his various fandoms fairly muted while in school, he is active in online internet communities about series such as Big Brother, Survivor, and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Nick is a keen player of Scrabble, it being a rare shared interest among the Ogilvie family. The family rarely played board games before moving to Chattanooga, and upon arriving in Tennessee, Alistair insisted on trying out the many unused board games in the collection they had accumulated over the years. At school, Nick performs decently. His strongest subjects are the humanities and mathematics, reflecting the interests of his parents. His favourite subject is history, albeit he does not often enjoy the exact historical subjects studied. Nick tends to view the state’s curriculums with scepticism, and to be interested in more global or international subjects than what the classroom offers. His particular favourite, an interest sparked by a sense of patriotism towards his homeland, is Celtic history. At first this was an interest in Scottish history, but as he read books and watched documentaries, he also developed fascinations in Welsh, Cornish, Breton, and Irish history. Advantages: Nick is healthy, well-built, and decently popular. As an illusionist, Nick’s skills at deception, distraction, and creativity might be transferable to an island context. Disadvantages: Nick is vulnerable to peer pressure, and can be cajoled or manipulated into making bad decisions. He is also prone to temper tantrums and can sometimes have a standoffish or abrasive demeanour. |
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V7 peeps: Nick Ogilvie Ashlynn Martinek Bill Winlock Camille Bellegarde V6 peeps: Kiziah Saraki Bradley Floyd | |
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| backslash | Feb 6 2018, 05:42 PM Post #2 |
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Who is this sassy lost child
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Hey Gianni, Nick is DENIED pending some expansion and edits for tone. What is Nick's hair color? Is there frequent miscommunication between Nick and his parents? His misconceptions of his father's personality towards non-business academics and their misunderstandings about his interest would imply that this is the case; if so, how and why does such miscommunication happen? Given that the family is said to have a pretty peaceful and easygoing relationship with each other, this dynamic stands out and needs some more explanation. After ending his friendship with Ryan, why did Nick act so aggressively upon being approached outside of school? Randomly getting punched in the face by a former friend isn't the kind of thing most people would just laugh off. Since the results of Nick and Ryan's falling out and Nick's changing reputation at school were intense enough for him to be readily willing to start over in a new country, I'd like more detail on that. Since Nick is self-aware enough to realize that he was getting roped into bullying when younger, how often is he truly oblivious to the fact that the jokes he makes at others' expense can be harmful? That seems like something he'd be aware of as a young adult, given his social development. Why does Nick keep it a secret that he wants to turn his illusions into a career prospect? What are Nick's post-graduation plans? Grammar and tone:
Remove the quotation marks.
I would either nix this sentence completely or fold it into the previous sentence with phrasing more in line with tone. Make those edits and post back here once you have, and I'll give Nick another look. |
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"Art enriches the community, Steve, no less than a pulsing fire hose, or a fireman beating down a blazing door. So what if we're drawing a nude man? So what if all we ever draw is a nude man, or the same nude man over and over in all sorts of provocative positions? Context, not content! Process, not subject! Don't be so gauche, Steve, it's beneath you." Characters Others
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| General Goose | Feb 10 2018, 11:34 AM Post #3 |
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Don't cast aspersions on my asparagus.
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And the very first thing I decided about Nick's appearance was his hair colour. Go figure. Edited! |
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V7 peeps: Nick Ogilvie Ashlynn Martinek Bill Winlock Camille Bellegarde V6 peeps: Kiziah Saraki Bradley Floyd | |
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| backslash | Feb 10 2018, 11:44 AM Post #4 |
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Who is this sassy lost child
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One tiny remaining thing: you missed the first instance of quotation marks that needs removal, around "seemly". That's all that needs fixing, though so I'll just take care of it. APPROVED Edited by backslash, Feb 10 2018, 11:44 AM.
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"Art enriches the community, Steve, no less than a pulsing fire hose, or a fireman beating down a blazing door. So what if we're drawing a nude man? So what if all we ever draw is a nude man, or the same nude man over and over in all sorts of provocative positions? Context, not content! Process, not subject! Don't be so gauche, Steve, it's beneath you." Characters Others
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