Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 12:21:36 GMT -7
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i51.tinypic.com/ngx4hu.jpg); width: 437px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30;] TIMOTHY ALAN SOMMERS  THE BASIC INFORMATION FULL NAME timothy alan sommers NICKNAMES alan GENDER male AGE & BIRTH seventeen, august ninth SEXUALITY homosexual CLASS lower PLAYED BY avan jogia THE PERSONALITY Moody Alan, feeling cut off from the world by his disability, has very extreme emotions to try to communicate to everyone that he’s still around and unwilling to be ignored. He spends quite a bit of time angry at his circumstances, taking it out on anyone and anything that happens to be around, since there’s no one person that he can blame. Though he’d never hit anyone, he has been known to break things in his fits of rage. He doesn’t technically have depression, but he gets depressed because it’s unfair and he doesn’t have any hope for the future because doctors have said it’s inoperable. He’s very full of self-pity. Independent His home life is a mess, so Alan basically had to raise himself, with some help from his older siblings. He taught himself to read before he started school, and his sign language is also predominantly self-taught. He’s highly intelligent and persistent, even through his disability. However, he doesn’t work well with others, largely because of the communication issue, but also because he’s used to being on his own. He gets frustrated when people try to help him without his asking. He doesn’t like being told what to do unless someone was appointed a leadership position over him. It’s difficult for him to understand when people learn slower than he does and has issues with patience at those times, but he does try. Unforgiving He holds grudges against people that he decides aren’t treating him how they ought to. He hates being talked down to just because he can’t hear, as if they think it makes him dumber than everyone else. People have also done things like talk about him while he’s right there because they know he can’t here, but he can read lips very well, so it’s not like he’s missing what they’re saying. Lonely He comes off as a total dick a lot of the time and he knows that but the problem is that he’s really particular with the friends he needs. They have to be patient with him and know how to calm him down and when to just back down and let him blow up. He has friends, naturally, but no one particularly close. He wants someone he can pour his heart and soul into but he doesn’t have anyone. Reserved Given that he’s deaf, Alan doesn’t speak at all. He’s able, since he isn’t mute or anything, but he’s afraid of what it might sound like since he can’t hear it, so he’s pretty silent. He doesn’t socialize much by other means, either. He’s quiet, even for a deaf kid. He hates sign language but uses it if he has to, and he has a tablet and pen that he keeps on him at all times to communicate, and his handwriting is rather neat, though a bit small. But he doesn’t like just talking for the sake of company most of the time, because he doesn’t think anyone legitimately cares. He spends most of his time reading or writing poetry. Passionate I don’t mean romantic or anything. He just gets really into the things he likes. He works really hard in school because he enjoys learning. He loves languages and works for mastery and has a real knack for learning them, more so than any other subject. He’s obsessed with bass guitar, though he doesn’t play himself. He has an ipod full of songs with heavy bass, because the vibrations allow him to get closer to sound than he would any other way. He has favorite bands and supports them wholeheartedly, saving up for concerts when he can, because seeing them in person is so much more of a feeling experience than just having the CD. FAMILY TIES & HISTORY MOTHER allyssa marie sommers FATHER unknown SIBLINGS (Older, in order) mark, eric, natalie, carla (Younger, in order) stephanie, riley, vanessa, kyle STORY Allyssa Sommers was always well known in Caroline as being rather... promiscuous, to put it nicely. She slept around and had strangers’ children and didn’t know when to stop. Her family was dirt poor and she had issues raising all those kids by herself. She didn’t take care of herself, but she still kept on having those kids. She was a heavy smoker, was since her teenaged years, and everyone knew that was no environment to have all those kids cooped up in. Nobody seemed to want to get too near, however, and so nothing got done. There were children before anything serious came of the situation. In a town like Caroline, where all the bad is supposed to be hushed up, some things are bound to slip out. The attack on the town whore wasn’t met with much energy and received no press coverage, but somehow everyone seemed to know. It pushed them to stay away, as though they’d be the next victims of the mugging. No one knew who had done it, even Allyssa herself, and so no charges were ever pressed. No charges, no trial, no money. The family continued to be poor, and only became more so when the fifth child was born. Another mouth to feed, another body to clothe... Allyssa’s pregnancy with Alan had not gone smoothly, of course. She’d been messed up pretty badly when those men attacked her, and it had had its effects on her son. Timothy Alan Sommers, the third son, the fifth child from the fifth unknown father, was born completely deaf. He was shown no more attention than any of the other children, which was very little. Meals were made on occasion and then came the free-for-all, where all the hungry kids would fight to fill their stomachs. The older kids tried to help the others when they could, but they also had themselves to look out for. Alan, being the youngest at the time, had it hardest. Being deaf did have it’s advantages; he got full nights’ sleep when all the yelling was going on. But he missed out on much more. No one bothered to try to connect with him specifically, so he was on his own. By four years old he was teaching himself to read because he hated being so unable to communicate and he was reading and writing before he got to school. School helped him immensely, and he loved it. There were special programs he was enrolled in to help him succeed despite his disability and he grew quickly. By the time he was 8 when Mark, Eric, and Carla ran away, he was reading far ahead his grade level and he was getting better at reading lips and using sign language. By the end of elementary school, he started to grow far more bitter. It was unfair that all of this was happening to him, that he was deaf because some guy decided to beat up his mom, that he was stuck being poor in a house full of kids who didn’t like him and he didn’t like either, and all of it just put him generally in a bad mood. When he was thirteen he was arrested for vandalism and placed for a few weeks in a correctional facility, which had some affect on his behavior but little to none on his general life outlook. He stopped trying to make friends and get along with his family, and he immersed himself in books, poetry, and bass guitar. He had casual acquaintances at school that he considered friends, certainly, and he stuck with them for years, since he never had anything to fight with them about. But it was hardly friendship. He felt just as alone with them as without them, and it made him hate the world. He’s been living like this for years now. He’s getting close to finishing high school and hopes to get out of Caroline as soon as he graduates. The siblings that ran away nine years ago come back from time to time to make sure everyone’s not dying or anything. Mark tattooed small music notes behind his right ear one night during these visits recently as a little ironic joke. The music’s right there, just out of reach for him. He’s always been gay, in his head. Coming out wasn’t a thing that ever happened, because there’s no one to tell and no one to go out with and no one to care. He knows, he isn’t conflicted or anything, it’s just the way things are. ALL ABOUT YOU ALIAS kirsten AGE & EXPERIENCE 16 and 8 AFTER ALL, WE'RE ACTORS ON A STAGE |
