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Zachary Beck; Prankster by day, troll by night
Topic Started: Feb 6 2018, 06:58 PM (181 Views)
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Name: Zachary Beck
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Grade: 12th
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies & Interests: Pranks, Youtube, comedy sketches, internet memes, video games, social media, trolling

Appearance: Zach is Caucasian, stands at 4’11”, and weighs 110 lbs. He has a skinny body frame and a round, boyish face. Zach’s overall appearance is rather childlike. He has dirty blonde hair that reaches down to the nape of his neck. His eyes are blue. He has a straight nose that rounds out at the end and freckles across its bridge.

Zach tends to wear t-shirts most of the time. They’ll usually have captions or graphics on the front and/or back. He’ll wear baggy pants year round and shorts during the warmer months. He also wears hoodies for cooler weather. For footwear, he wears tennis shoes for most seasons and sandals for warm weather. On the day of the abduction, Zach wore a white t-shirt with two stick figures, one of which is holding the other’s leg, with the caption “I was pulling your leg!” underneath. He also wore baggy blue jeans and black Adidas sandals.

Biography: Zach was born as the only child to Thomas and Victoria Beck. Shortly after Zach was born, his family moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee. They moved in order to be closer to Victoria's parents. Thomas currently works as a store manager at a local Publix and Victoria has found work as a baker at a local pastry shop. The family is comfortably middle class overall.

Growing up, Zach tended to act out a lot. Always craving attention, Zach would try to poke and prod his parents and other children to come play with him. He was always loud and played a bit roughly. Once in elementary school, he had pushed a girl down during recess while playing tag, hurting her arm. This caused him to be sent to the principal’s office. Despite his claims that she almost knocked him down before he pushed her, he got detention for a week. After that happened, his parents were called in to see the counsellor. During their meeting, they discussed that they should find Zach an outlet for his more aggressive tendencies.

During this time, Zach got into video games. His parents owned a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo Gamecube. Some of the games Zach would play with them or watch them play included Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil 4, Soul Calibur, and Super Smash Bros. Around the time Zach entered 5th grade, he received an Xbox 360 for his birthday, and that’s when his taste in video games switched to less family friendly titles. Games like Dead Rising, Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, and God of War were among his favorites. He finds action and fighting games to be exciting for their quick pace and controls. His parents always make sure to talk to Zach about the games he plays and that he should never imitate what he sees. Zach felt patronized, thinking they considered him stupid enough to imitate the violence he sees. He still obeyed them regardless.

Zach started using the computer a lot during elementary school. Most of his free time spent using the computer was spent watching videos on Youtube. Most of the videos he enjoyed involved pranks. He loved seeing people’s reactions when being pranked, finding them hilarious. He later decided to try out some of the pranks he had seen himself. He started with simple pranks, such as wrapping a rubber band around the sink sprayer, and tested them on his parents. Despite his parents’ disapproval and punishments, he figured he had found an outlet.

As the years went by, he began to do more elaborate pranks. For example, hanging a giant toy spider from a tree and dropping it in front of people who walked by. Zach would record the reactions of his prank victims and upload them to his Youtube account. Zach is decently popular, having over hundreds of subscribers. Helping with this popularity, Zach has numerous social media plugs, such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and while it was still around, Vine. Aside from pranks, Zach has also dabbled in performing sketch comedy, inspired by shows like MadTV. Usually these are quick scenarios thought up and performed with his friends. He usually uploads these to Youtube, Instagram, and formerly Vine.

During his middle school years, Zach started to notice everyone was hitting their growth spurts but him. Compared to everyone else, Zach still looked like an elementary school kid amongst the teenagers. His parents consulted a doctor about this, but they were assured Zach was healthy. Zach became very insecure due to his short height, and received a lot of teasing for it. So, he started to tease back at everyone taller than him. This led to him getting carried away by verbally taunting and insulting his classmates. This ended up getting him into confrontations with his classmates, as well as students from different grades. These confrontations would threaten to lead to physical violence. So Zach, deciding to take an offhanded approach, took to social media. He made alternate anonymous accounts on his social media pages and started trolling everyone who annoyed or angered him.

In doing this, Zach started using various internet memes. Some of these memes he had taken off of other sites or created himself. Sometimes he’ll spam these memes across social media, whether or not it’s for trolling. Any meme that is popular or still has relevance, he’ll use it. Zach is careful when using these memes, though. In order to prevent others from finding out he’s the one trolling, he posts the same memes on his official pages and acts like a victim. His trolling victims aren’t too specific. He targets anyone from his school or classes that bother him or make him mad. He enjoys seeing posts from others reacting to his trolling. He tries not to go as far as to pressure someone into suicide, as he only likes to take swift revenge on others.

In high school, Zach still causes the same sort of trouble he made back in middle school. He’ll insult anyone, whether they annoy him or just to get a rise out of them. He views locker rooms as perfect places to practice new pranks of his, such as tricking others into giving him toilet paper just to cover their hand in Nutella and pass it off as poop. He will also bang on the bathroom stalls and fake peeing on people’s feet in the showers. He will record what happens with his phone for his Youtube channel. Zach has also taken an interest in the film club, mostly to take better shots for his videos, but also to explore a career in camera work.

Zach’s relationship with his parents is rather complicated. He does love them, but he also thinks they can be rather overbearing. He feels that they tend to treat him like he is still a child, which annoys him to no end. They are also Baptist Christians and attend church bimonthly, but Zach finds it boring. Zach considers himself agnostic, but he keeps that to himself since he does not want to deal with the assumed disapproval from his parents. Thomas and Victoria’s stance on Zach’s pranks is also complicated. While they don’t think it is exactly the outlet Zach needed, they also believe they are harmless enough as to not to be a big deal.

Academically, Zach is at best an average student. He maintains a B to C average at best, with an occasional D. This is due to his lack of interest in the classes he attends. Over the years, his parents have tried to improve his drive by offering him rewards if he manages to get passing grades. Sometimes he’ll receive extra money for his grades or his parents will buy him a new video game. This seems to work for the most part, as Zach has stepped up his studying habits to get what he wants. He has gotten a new camera for his videos, as well as props for his pranks. If he fails to meet his end of the deal, he will be restricted from making his videos. Zach dreams of making a living off of his Youtube channel, perhaps getting a show on TV dedicated to his pranks like Impractical Jokers. For now, however, he is currently working part time at a McDonalds.

Advantages: Zach can use his size to his advantage by hiding from any potential threats. Any fan of his Youtube videos could be a potential ally.
Disadvantages: Zach’s antics have been the ire of many throughout his school years, meaning he’ll have his fair share of enemies. He can also be overtaken by a lot of the taller and stronger players. His tendency to insult others could provoke them into attacking him.
Edited by Ryuki, Feb 14 2018, 09:41 AM.
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Hi Ryuki! Zachary is a really good profile, so good job! He's just Denied for a moment pending a few things.


Name: Zachary Beck
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Grade: 12th
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies & Interests: Pranks, Youtube, comedy sketches, internet memes, video games, social media, trolling

Appearance: Zach is Caucasian, stands at 4’11”, and weighs 110 lbs. He has a skinny body frame and a round, boyish face. Zach’s overall appearance is rather childlike. He has dirty blonde hair that reaches down to the nape of his neck. His eyes are blue. He has a straight nose that rounds out at the end and freckles across its bridge.

Zach tends to wear t-shirts most of the time. They’ll usually have captions or graphics on the front and/or back. He’ll wear baggy pants year round and shorts during the warmer months. He also wears hoodies for cooler weather. For completeness, what’s his usual choice of footwear? On the day of the abduction, Zach wore a white t-shirt with two stick figures, one of which is holding the other’s leg, with the caption “I was pulling your leg!” underneath. He also wore baggy blue jeans and black Adidas sandals.

Biography: Zach was born as the only child to Thomas and Victoria Beck. Shortly after Zach was born, his family moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Having no luck in finding full time work in their home town, they moved in order to find more opportunities for jobs. Bit of a nitpick, but is moving states the best reaction to not finding work in their home town? It's an expensive process and neither of their professions are particularly high skilled, so maybe you need a slight extra incentive for the location shift if you want to keep it. Thomas currently works as a store manager at a local Publix and Victoria has found work as a baker at a local pastry shop. The family is comfortably middle class overall.

Growing up, Zach tended to act out a lot. Always craving attention, Zach would try to poke and prod his parents and other children to come play with him. He was always loud and played a bit roughly, causing himself to be alienated by other students. Would being rambunctious really be enough to alienate him? Plenty of kids at that age can be pretty rowdy without being the class outcast. Once in elementary school, he had pushed a girl down during recess while playing tag, hurting her arm. This caused him to be sent to the principal’s office. Despite his claims that she almost knocked him down before he pushed her, he got detention for a week. After that happened, his parents were called in to see the counsellor. During their meeting, they discussed that they should find Zach an outlet for his more aggressive tendencies. The incident was passed off as an accident, but Zach became even more alienated, less social, and played by himself most of the time. Again, I’m having a bit of a hard time seeing the connect between him being very extraverted and everyone not liking him here. I can imagine the girl in question and her friends would probably not be happy with him, but everybody? People push each other around in elementary school, shit happens, life goes on.

During this time, Zach got into video games. His parents owned a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo Gamecube. Some of the games Zach would play with them or watch them play included Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil 4, Soul Calibur, and Super Smash Bros. He particularly enjoys the fighting and action genres for their quick pace and controls. This sentence seems to be talking about present day Zach, but we cut back to middle school Zach straight after. This could do with a bit of a rethink to keep the paragraph chronologically consistent. Around the time Zach entered middle school, he received an Xbox 360 for his 12th birthday, and that’s when his taste in video games switched to less family friendly titles. Games like Dead Rising, Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, and God of War were among his favorites. He finds the action of these games to be exciting. His parents always make sure to talk to Zach about the games he plays and that he should never imitate what he sees. Zach felt patronized, thinking they considered him stupid enough to imitate the violence he sees. He still obeyed them regardless.

Zach also started using the computer a lot during elementary school. Most of his free time spent using the computer was spent watching videos on Youtube. Most of the videos he enjoyed involved pranks. He loved seeing people’s reactions when being pranked, finding them hilarious. He later decided to try out some of the pranks he had seen himself. He started with simple pranks, such as wrapping a rubber band around the sink sprayer, and tested them on his parents. Despite his parents’ disapproval and punishments, he had figured he had found an outlet.

As the years went by, he began to do more elaborate pranks. For example, hanging a giant toy spider from a tree and dropping it in front of people who walked by. Zach would record the reactions of his prank victims and upload them to his Youtube account. Zach is decently popular, having over 25,000 subscribers. This is a significantly high number for a kid Zach’s age, especially if his niche is putting out prank videos which is a rather saturated market. I’ve got no problem with him enjoying some success, but maybe tone it down a bit to hundreds of subscribers instead. Helping with this popularity, Zach has numerous social media plugs, such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and while it was still around, Vine. Aside from pranks, Zach has also dabbled in performing sketch comedy, inspired by shows like MadTV. Usually these are quick scenarios thought up and performed with his friends. He usually uploads these to Youtube, Instagram, and formerly Vine.

During his middle school years, Zach started to notice everyone was hitting their growth spurts but him. Did his parents consult a doctor about this? Whilst Zach technically misses the classification for little person by an inch in North America, he’s still very short. That’s fine mind, I’m just wondering if anyone was asking questions. Compared to everyone else, Zach still looked like an elementary school kid amongst the teenagers. He became very insecure due to this, and received a lot of teasing for his height. So, he started to tease back at everyone taller than him. This led to him getting carried away by verbally taunting and insulting his classmates. This ended up getting him into confrontations with his classmates, as well as students from different grades. These confrontations would threaten to lead to physical violence, so Zach, deciding to take an offhanded 'approach' I think is the word you're missing here?, took to social media. He made alternate anonymous accounts on his social media pages and started trolling everyone who annoyed or angered him.

In doing this, Zach started using various internet memes. Some of these memes he had taken off of other sites or created himself. Sometimes he’ll spam these memes across social media, whether or not it’s for trolling. Any meme that is popular or still has relevance, he’ll use it. Zach is careful when using these memes, though. In order to prevent others from finding out he’s the one trolling, he posts the same memes on his official pages and acts like a victim. His trolling victims aren’t too specific. He targets anyone from his school or classes that bother him or make him mad. He enjoys seeing posts from others reacting to his trolling. He tries not to go as far as to pressure someone into suicide, as he only likes to take swift revenge on others.

In high school, Zach still causes the same sort of trouble he made back in middle school. He’ll insult anyone, whether they annoy him or just to get a rise out of them. He views locker rooms as perfect places to practice new pranks of his, such as tricking others into giving him toilet paper just to cover their hand in Nutella and pass it off as poop. He will also bang on the bathroom stalls and fake peeing on people’s feet in the showers. He will record what happens with his phone for his Youtube channel. Zach has also taken an interest in the film club, mostly to take better shots for his videos, but also to explore a career in camera work.

Zach’s relationship with his parents is rather complicated. He does love them, but he also thinks they can be rather overbearing. He feels that they tend to treat him like he is still a child, which annoys him to no end. They are are also Baptist Christians and attend church bimonthly, but Zach finds it boring. Zach considers himself agnostic, but he keeps that to himself since he does not want to deal with the assumed disapproval from his parents. Thomas and Victoria’s stance on Zach’s pranks is also complicated. While they don’t think it is exactly the outlet Zach needed, they also believe they are harmless enough as to not to be a big deal.

Academically, Zach is at best an average student. He maintains a B to C average at best, with an occasional D. This is due to his lack of interest in the classes he attends. Over the years, his parents have tried to improve his drive by offering him rewards if he manages to get passing grades. Sometimes he’ll receive extra money for his grades or his parents will buy him a new video game. This seems to work for the most part, as Zach has stepped up his studying habits to get what he wants. He has gotten a new camera for his videos, as well as props for his pranks. If he fails to meet his end of the deal, he will be restricted from making his videos. Zach dreams of making a living off of his Youtube channel, perhaps getting a show on TV dedicated to his pranks like Impractical Jokers. For now, however, he is currently working part time at a McDonalds.

Advantages: Zach can use his size to his advantage by hiding from any potential threats. Any fan of his Youtube videos could be a potential ally.
Disadvantages: Zach’s antics have been the ire of many throughout his school years, meaning he’ll have his fair share of enemies. He can also be overtaken by a lot of the taller and stronger players. His tendency to insult others could provoke them into attacking him.


That's it for now, so post here when you've made the changes and I'll give Zach another look. Thanks!
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It looks to me like you missed a couple:

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Some of the games Zach would play with them or watch them play included Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil 4, Soul Calibur, and Super Smash Bros. He particularly enjoys the fighting and action genres for their quick pace and controls. Around the time Zach entered 5th grade, he received an Xbox 360 for his birthday, and that’s when his taste in video games switched to less family friendly titles.

The tense in the middle sentence still reads off, since you've gone from past to present to past. It's particularly jarring because the next line says his interest in games changed, which makes me have to ask if this preference is meant to still be accurate or not. I'd recommend either moving the line to the end of the paragraph, reflecting his modern interest, or change it to be past tense and just make sure it's clear in the rest of the paragraph that this is still his preference.

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They are are also Baptist Christians and attend church bimonthly,

Still have a double use of the word 'are' here.

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For footwear, he wears tennis shoes for all seasons and sandals for warm weather.

This is a bit conflicting: all seasons would imply he wears tennis shoes in hot weather too. Maybe say most instead?

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The incident was passed off as an accident.

Bit of a nitpick, but this seems unnecessary. I get the impression the shoving was more Zach being a dick than him pushing her too hard during tag, so it really wasn't an accident, but at the same time it's not like he's an elementary school kid with an image to protect and would need such a cover up. I wouldn't mind it being made a bit more explicit who's passing it off as an accident, honestly. If his parents are doing it, I'd like a reason why considering that they saw the counsellor about it and everything. If Zach's doing it, is he trying to protect his ego? Not willing to take responsibility?

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Okay, I think it's fixed. Is there anything else I need to improve?
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