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Abel Zelenović; The baseball boy of 1000 incoming edits
Topic Started: Feb 11 2018, 08:03 PM (136 Views)
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Name: Abel Zelenović
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and Interests: Baseball, baking, fitness, bass guitar, social media

Appearance: Abel is at an average height and stands just shy of 5'9". His weight of 177 lbs is comprised of noticeable muscle in his limbs and a rock-solid chest with broad shoulders. He carries himself in a relaxed and confident manner in most situations, and he tends to be expressive during conversation with plenty of facial reactions and hand gestures that fly around everywhere.

Abel's Slavic heritage shows in his facial features with his somewhat pale skin, round face, tall forehead, brown deep-set eyes, prominent straight nose, and thin lips. He clips his light brown hair down close to the skull but not enough to show the skin. His hairline has begun receding since he was 16 and has visibly started forming the M-shaped pattern associated with early male pattern baldness. He tries to shave his face a least every other day and hates having any stubble.

Abel isn't very knowledgeable about fashion, and he usually goes for safe options that are comfortable and easy to wear: t-shirts, hoodies, jeans, shorts, tennis shoes, and that's about it. On the day of the abduction Abel was wearing a sleeveless gray zip-up hoodie left unzipped, a white V-neck t-shirt, black athletic shorts, white ankle socks, and solid black tennis shoes.

Biography: Born on January 14th, 2000, Abel is the youngest child of Lukas and Karen Zelenović, a fairly well-off couple who live in the Frazier's Glen subcommunity and are both natives of Chattanooga, TN. Abel has two older sisters who do not currently live at home: Amy, 21, is currently studying at Belmont University to become a registered nurse, and Natalie, 28, lives in Nashville with her own family. Most of the family's income comes from Lukas who works as an arson investigator for the Chattanooga police department; Karen had been a grocery store manager until quitting when Abel was 3 years old, but about three years ago she started a business selling baked goods online with modest success.

Abel has had a positive home life for as long as he can remember. Lukas runs the Zelenović household like a tight ship and is the main disciplinarian due to his air force background, but Abel believes that his father is very fair and sees him as a strong role model. His relationship with his mother Karen is almost equally as strong due to her warm personality and encouraging words and is the main reason Abel became interested in baking. Abel's relationships with his sisters are more or less neutral besides the occasional bickering, although he has a stronger connection with Amy due to their proximity in age.

Even as a child, Abel was very outgoing and talkative. He would always try to strike up a conversation with strangers in line at the supermarket or restaurants, much to his parents' chagrin. He was very interested in sports from an early age when his father would take him to watch different games on the days Lukas had off. Abel especially grew a love for baseball after he was signed up for the local tee-ball league when he was 4, and he has enjoyed the sport ever since.

Abel became easily acclimated to school life upon starting elementary school. He was extroverted as always and tried to make friends and play with everyone he could. He got in trouble for talking out of turn a couple of times in class, but otherwise he was a well-behaved student and actively engaged in learning and activities with the other children. It was around this time when Abel's dedication to baseball really cemented when he joined Little League. Abel found a natural aptitude for the position of catcher due to the mental and physical pressures it required, and he loved it as it forced him to push himself through the mind games of a purely defensive position.

When Abel was 8, he developed a fear of large bodies of water after tripping and falling off a boat during a fishing trip with his family on the Tennessee River. Since then he has refused to go anywhere near rivers and lakes for fear of drowning. Recently he has been trying to conquer this fear and has worked himself up to standing in the shallow end of swimming pools, although if he goes anywhere past chest high he will get anxious and start to panic.

Abel became interested in baking just before middle school. As a young child he would sometimes watch his mother when she was preparing dinner for that night or baking stuff for bake sales, but he never directly asked her to teach him until he started watching shows with her on the Food Network. After watching an episode of Food Network Challenge involving Halloween inspired cakes, Abel mindlessly mentioned that he wanted to try making a cake like one of those someday; after hearing this, Karen enthusiastically snatched his arm and dragged him into the kitchen for his first official baking lesson that night. Ever since then Abel has expanded his baking skills to include cookies, pies, macaroons, macarons, and everything in between and has been a regular helper for his mother's business.

Middle school was an unremarkable time for the most part; Abel was still very extroverted but had better control over his tendency to speak out of turn during class. His friendship circle became more concentrated around other people involved with sports and the more popular crowd, but he continued to try and play nice with everyone even if they didn't fit into those categories. It was around this time when Abel became more interested in weight training and more organized exercise than what he was getting from just playing sports. With help from his father Abel started on an exercise and diet regime to promote a lifetime of fitness with the hopes of making it to 96 years old, for no reason other than it sounds like a good number.

Abel became interested in playing bass in 8th grade after being subjected to multiple sessions of Rock Band 3 with friends after school. He liked music enough and always found himself drawn to the rhythmic and moving bass lines to begin with, but he never considered seriously playing an instrument until he had that plastic controller in his hands. With money he had saved from Christmas and his 14th birthday, Abel bought an old electric bass and practice amp from the father of one of his friends and has loved it ever since. He practices at least several times a week but has no plans of pursuing playing as anything more than a hobby to do in his free time.

After getting his first smartphone for his 15th birthday, Abel began to get more absorbed in the world of social media. He runs an Instagram and Twitter where he mainly posts photos of his daily life with friends and food creations; sometimes he uploads bass covers of popular songs on his personal SoundCloud recorded from either his phone or laptop microphone, whichever is more convenient at the time. He doesn't have a very high following due in part to the low production values, but he enjoys blogging and posting content as more of a virtual diary than as a scheme to obtain validation through view counts.

Around George Hunter High School, Abel is fairly well-liked and maintains a positive reputation. He mainly sticks with the popular kids and their associates, but he tries his best to be pleasant to anyone who wants to talk with him and actively avoids gossiping about others. He has done well in his academic career, keeping a B average with a couple of A's and C's thrown around. He enjoys learning about history the most out of all subjects as he finds it interesting to learn about the mistakes humans have made in the past and the lessons learned from them. The only subject he particularly dislikes is English as he hates overanalyzing the reading material and tends to space out during classroom discussion as he has a hard time following along with the subjectivity it demands.

After high school Abel plans on continuing his education at UT-Knoxville with a major in sports management and has a couple of scholarships to help offset the tuition costs. He hopes to continue playing baseball and dreams of ending up playing for the MLB, but if that doesn't turn out he isn't quite sure on a fallback besides finishing out his undergrad.

Advantages: Abel's physical strength and endurance are his greatest assets. His friendly personality may allow him to make allies easily, and his good reputation may help keep him from being a big target early on.
Disadvantages: Abel's impatience and tendency to talk over others may be a hindrance and may lead into making some bad decisions or getting on the nerves of other participants. His aquaphobia will be crippling if he must do any sort of swimming.
Edited by tetsucabra, Feb 22 2018, 08:50 PM.
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Hello there, Jilly Shears! I'm MK Kilmarnock, and I'll be critiquing Abel today. Abel is currently denied pending a few changes.

Abel is at an average height compared to his male classmates and stands just shy of 5'9". > I get that we here at GHHS are giant giants who stomp all over non-giants but remove the 'compared to his male classmates' bit and rework the sentence. Average height will work just fine.

confidant manner > confident manner. A confidant is somebody you tell a secret to.

With help from his father Abel started on an exercise and diet regime to promote a lifetime of fitness with the hopes of making it to 96 years old. > ... Wh... why 96 specifically? That's an awfully arbitrary number. If you don't have an answer for this one then so be it, but goddamn, I want to know what possessed this kid to pick 96 and not 95, 100 or 110.

With money he had saved from Christmas and his 14th birthday, Abel bought an old electric bass and practice amp from one of his friend's father > the father of one of his friends

and sometimes he uploads bass covers of popular songs on his personal SoundCloud. > Does he just play near his phone with the mic turned on or has Abel purchased additional equipment to further his hobby?

He enjoys learning about history the most out of all subjects as he finds it interesting to learn about the mistakes humans have made in the past and the lessons learned from them; the only subject he particularly dislikes is English as he hates overanalyzing the reading material and tends to space out during classroom discussion as he has a hard time understanding with the subjectivity it demands. > Just split this up into two separate sentences.

Abel's physical strength and endurance is his greatest asset. > are his greatest assets. There are two things there.

His good communication skills may allow him to make allies easily, > Abel may be a natural extrovert that loves crowds, but that doesn't have a direct relationship to communication skills, so this advantage currently comes from nowhere.

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Eh that was mostly painless. I edited the OP with the clarifications and grammar changes, so let's try this again.
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