Post by Ezekiel Greer on Jul 26, 2010 16:44:51 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
And I do believe in miracles
And I want to save my soul
And I know that I'm a sinner
I'm gonna die here in the cold[/font][/center]
WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY ,[/color]
CHARACTER BASICS ,
you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye[/color]
FULL NAME: Ezekiel Patrick Greer[/font]
NICKNAMES: Zeke, Scarface
GENDER: Male
AGE: 20
UNIVERSITY YEAR: First (Sophomore)
MAJOR: Criminology
MINOR: Computer Science
JOB: Barista, Waiter, & Bouncer
PLAYBY: Charlie Hunnam
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: English/American[/font]
HAIR COLOR: Blond
EYE COLOR: Blue
HEIGHT: 6'1"
WEIGHT: 171 lbs.
BODY TYPE: he's extremely fit thanks to kicking people's asses every night. don't believe me? he'll bounce your head off his abs.
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: a rather strange scar running from his hairline down to his left eye, dissecting his eyebrow and ending just before the lid of his eye. he also has a tattoo on his upper back, a tribal depicting a phoenix with its wings outstretched over his shoulders and a Celtic cross on his left upper arm. A vast array of scars cover his hands and chest hinting to pugilistic tendencies and he walks with an ever so slight limp from an old injury to his left leg.
PERSONAL STYLE: It depends on what part he's playing on any given day. He has a very small collection of suits and such for work, wife beaters, and button ups. He is capable of looking very suave when he wants to be and a bit of a grunge rat in other instances. He favors comfortable jeans and skater shoes most of the time when he has an extremely rare day off.
OTHER: The bearer of a ‘good ol’ boy’ appearance, Zeke has been endowed with a strong jaw line and a general oval-shaped face which could mean a certain jowly predilection should he become older and less active. For a young man he has rather full lips and thick tidy brows that are usually arched in amusement. Cornflower blue eyes peer out of a mop of unruly blonde hair and possesses a tanned physique that is reminiscent of a footballer or wrestler, the aforementioned scar that seems to sever (for some) and add (for others) to his overall physical appeal. He gives off the airs of being a very active young adult and certainly does enjoy playing sports.
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: he can lead (albeit sometimes harshly,) he can see the truth in things no matter how obscure, deceptively good at fighting, blend in when he needs to, deductive reasoning, finding evidence/people[/font]
WEAKNESSES: he is mistrustful, he is quick to anger and judge, he almost never forgives a trespass against him, he can be over-protective and over zealous and is often too stubborn to see the error of his ways, and he does not take criticism very well at all.
LIKES: cigarettes, whiskey, rock 'n roll, certain girls, football (soccer,) friedrich nietzsche, animals, photography, fighting, writing, old movies, coffee, crime novels
DISLIKES: authority figures, hypocrisy, most people, ignorance, most pop culture references, his seizures, losing, chick flicks, indian food, confined spaces, bad things happening to good people.
FLAWS: well aside from the seizure thing he also has a habit of upholding the law and then promptly breaking it with his underground fighting habit, and lusts for vengeance so much that it has consumed him.
HABITS: chain-smoking, drinking heinous amounts of Guinness after a bad day, driving around late at night when he can't sleep, working out obsessively, creating random bits of computer code, and hacking.
SECRETS: Witnessed the murder of his ex-girlfriend and his seizures are definitely the only horrible secrets he has.
BEST MEMORY: Getting accepted into college and having his epiphany over what he wanted to do with his life.
WORST MEMORY: Well, it's kind of a tie between his parents' divorce and Kelly's grisly demise.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Coming from two divorced parents you can rest assured that Ezekiel is a little neurotic from the less their less than friendly departure. He has developed deep-rooted trust issues and finds himself alienating people and making enemies more than he makes friends. He is an entirely independent entity and does not enjoy and is practically incapable of asking for help of any kind. His pride is perhaps his greatest fault and he often comes off as a fairly arrogant jack-ass to those he feels are beneath him.
Ezekiel is certainly very intelligent which makes his clever insults all the more biting. He enjoys a certain level of sarcasm in his conversations (even if they are with himself) and seems to particularly like pissing people off. It is as though a switch was thrown in his head the minute his father walked out the door and he has been angry ever since. Hard-headed and loud-mouthed he is definitely not everyone's cup of tea and it is certainly strange that he didn't shift into a porcupine or a wolverine instead for all his personality short-comings.
However, he is not all bad. Truly he hurts like anyone else he just likes to make people believe that he doesn't. There is a secret part of himself that rarely anyone ever sees a part that vulnerable, shy, and lacks confidence. If you should ever see him with what truly makes him happy you may very well see a young man transformed. His passion is working with various animals and with them he is gentle and soft-spoken, he listens to them and they listen to him in return. Ezekiel revels in wilderness, in quiet moments and if he lets you peek at what is truly inside you will find a boy that is protective and true of heart, willing to fight and work for what he wants.
There is a little well-kept secret about this boy that you should probably know about, too. After his car accident he began having seizures. He or his dog can usually sense when one is about to hit him so he secludes himself somewhere where no one can find him. In the event that there are people present at the time of his seizure he usually flies into an embarrassed rage in an attempt to scare people away.
In spite of the fact that he is a bit of a misanthrope he does believe in doing what's right for other people. Bringing criminals to justice has been a dream of his, even if his own moral compass is slightly left of center he feels duty-bound to keep innocent people out of harm's way or bring closure to families that haven't had a chance to make their peace with a loved one's death because he can definitely relate.
AND WE'LL BOTH GROW OLD ,[/color]
CHARACTER HISTORY ,
well i don't know, i don't know, i don't know, i hope so[/color]
HOMETOWN: Valkyrie, California[/size][/font]
PARENTS: Annette & Colin Greer
SIBLINGS: N/A
OTHER: N/A
LIVING SITUATION: Dorms
HISTORY: Born in Valkyrie, California to Annette and Colin Greer he was the first successful birth in a long line of miscarriages that had worn at the very core of the two's marriage. Born a week after his due date Colin had declared that from the start his son was a strapping example of German heritage. His childhood ran on without many incidents with the exception of the occasional knock-out, drag-out fights between his parents about things he did not understand. At first Annette had not been entirely privy to the fact that her husband was a gambling addict and when it was revealed to her you can understand that it was a bit of a shock. This began a wellspring of distrust on her part and when her husband informed her that her son would probably inherit some of the debt and financial damage Annette was not sure how to feel about that.
She had always craved a simple life outside the court room and now everything had become so very...complicated.
When Ezekiel was 8 they decided to go on a family vacation to Germany, the primary reason was to salvage their crumbling marriage. His father's mother lived on the coast, a picturesque cottage by the sea. While his parents were out reconciling his grammy would tell him stories, warn him not to stray too close to the waters around a certain bay at night for there was a creature that wandered in the waters. Even at 8 years of age Ezekiel was fairly headstrong and while his grammy passed out with a cuppa gin in her hand he wandered away from the warm lights of the cottage and walked down along the coast.
He got lost for a few hours and his parents eventually found him and brought him back, Annette and Colin arguing intensely over what could have happened to him. It was later that evening that Annette found out Colin had gambled the last of their savings away and owed some very unpleasant people a lot of money.
Directly afterward his parents could no longer handle each other. His father couldn't handle the responsibilities of being a husband and a father and had taken to the bottle, his mother couldn't handle TWO children in the home so she sent Colin Greer packing one cold Sunday night. Ezekiel didn't see his father for two years after that and each day that passed he grew angrier and angrier. When Ezekiel started to get more involved in school Annette was over-joyed, figuring that he had made friends when really he'd become involved in fighting his anger out.
Ezekiel received a nice 1967 Mustang Fastback for his high school graduation present from an anonymous sender but he had since learned that his father had worked for a car dealership company somewhere in Vegas. He didn't send a thank you.
He has been busting his ass (to put it in no uncertain terms) to become the best in his chosen field, keeping his secret a secret. He seems to sense however that the time will come and someone will find out but he secretly hopes that when that time comes that will be the seizure that kills him. On top of that, two years ago he watched his ex-girlfriend get gunned down after she came to him for protection, trying to pass along a message to her parents that she never got to say. Four bullets total, one to the back of the neck, one to the side of her head and one through the throat. Ezekiel was left standing in a puddle of blood with her grizzled remains splashed across his face. After that he knew what he had to do.
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: Hannah[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: Female
AGE: 20
RP EXPERIENCE: 10+ years
OTHER CHARACTERS: Kieron Somhairle
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:[See Kieron's app]credit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse
