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Name // Seth Cooper
Nickname // None, unfortunately
Age // Sixteen
Gender // Male
Race // Human
Height // Five feet, three inches
Weight // One hundred twelve pounds
Build // Skinny, scrawny, short
Skintone // Very pale; the glow of a computer monitor doesn't make people tan
Markings // Nothing worth mentioning
Hair color // White and bright blond in equal proportions. Streaks of varying size and random placement. Natural, but it really doesn't look like it.
Texture // Straight
Length // Medium length, about two finger widths in the back and three or four in the front. Bangs fall just over his eyes.
Style // Left plain and mostly unstyled. Sometimes he tries to do the one-eye-showing thing, but usually he just sticks to however it looks after he runs a brush through it.
Face // Soft features. Large eyes, small mouth. Delicate nose with a thin bridge. Overall, it's a childlike face that shows expression well.
Expressions // Seth's face tells you much more about him then he'll ever say. When content, his face is smooth and relaxed, with very small upturns at the corners of his lips, eyes either closed or lowered. Even at his happiest, he's too shy to show how he feels, and lowers his head as his smile gets bigger. If he's got something on his mind, and he generally does, he tends to get a blank, unfocused look when thoughts are coming easily, and a very slight furrow when he's coming up with problems finding a solution. And when Seth is afraid... Well, he looks like a six year old. Wide, round eyes, one side of his bottom lip between his teeth, and a downward-angled head.
Eye color // Light grey with blue whirls
General clothing style // Seth just wants to blend in. Everything he wears just emphasizes this fact.
Shirts/tops // Plain or printed t-shirts, short or long-sleeved. Even the patterned shirts he wears tend to be lackluster and don't draw the eye. For him, being adventurous is layering one shirt on top of the other. (On the other hand, it's easy to force him to wear bright colors and crazy patterns and anything else, so...)
Pants/bottoms // Old jeans, blue or black. The knees are always on the verge of wearing out, but still have enough fabric left to keep the white string things from showing. (Optional: a rip in the left knee with speckled blood stains on the shin)
Shoes // Grey sneakers with a few scuff marks. Nothing that stands out.
Other // Seth loves his black sweatshirt. It's just your average hoodie, a little big for him, but the kid is never seen without it.
Personality // Not many people know Seth. They've seen him around, but most people don't bother talking to him. Even if they do try talking, he's not a good conversationalist by any stretch of the word. He prefers listening to other people's ideas and opinions to talking about his own logical viewpoints. By that statement alone, it should be pretty clear how Seth approaches situations: observe, analyze, present conclusions if necessary.
Not so logical is his tendency to get easily overwhelmed. When things get rough or he gets moderately injured, he withdraws. Physically, mentally. When his usually buzzing brain seizes up, it's a catastrophic event with a variable recovery time. To put it bluntly, Seth is not someone you want around in a crisis, especially if you were depending on him.
Habits // Playing with the string on his sweatshirt or anything else near him; inspecting his food before eating it and not letting different foods touch; not telling people things unless they ask him
Mannerisms // Sleeping curled up as small as he can; looking away when he talks to people and generally avoiding eye contact; saying 'um' and 'uh'
Likes // Corn muffins; small spaces; people who make him smile or laugh; the colors blue, grey, black, and green; simulators, especially flight simulators; rainy days
Dislikes // Most food; people or things that don't make sense; hats; heat and humidity; sticky things
Fears // Talking to people, especially angry people; explaining things; driving, but he wants to anyway; large animals; guns and explosives; bugs with stingers
Biography // Seth was born in the city of Calicia, a place governed and controlled by the Administration. With their team of enforcers called Officers, and with the population subdued through use of hormone-based tranquilizers, there was nothing the Administration did not control. His parents, former Administration scientists, worked in secret with a small group of similarly-minded employees to fight against the Administration. Even as they designed methods of chemically taming the citizens of Calicia, they were designing a way to make people immune to the hormone. Their subjects? The unborn children of the female scientists. Before they were even conceived, they were the decided saviors of the city.
Seven years later, Seth Cooper was born. Instead of his parents being proud of their son, someone who was to someday help free the city, they were afraid. Rather than inheriting their blond hair, his little baby head was covered in blond and white spots. He would stand out of a crowd, the exact thing they were trying to avoid. To make up for their mistake, they worked hard to teach him how to fight against the government.
...It didn't work. Sixteen years later, Seth is filled with ideas about how he should be and what he should be doing, but his only real accomplishment is being proficient at operating electronic equipment without any apparent input. In fact, he'd been planning to disappear out of his parents' lives since he was first aware of what his parents expected of him.
He didn't get the chance. One day, he arrived at his apartment building to find at an Officer hiding out behind a car, waiting for... Him. If they knew where he lived, then there was no reason to live there. They wouldn't leave his parents untouched. Seth turned around. He decided to go it alone and hide.
After meeting a guy named Quinn while trying to get away from an explosion set by others like himself, his hiding and running was much the same. Quinn was a friend, but it was only after meeting up with the man who had set the explosion, and the others who had joined him, that he realized what he was supposed to do. While his loyalty to the group has never wavered, his loyalty to the cause... He never had any. He's only in the rebellion because the others are depending on him to be there. He'd rather be anywhere else in the world.
Abilities // Seth is a technopath. Or would it be a technomancer? He doesn't know. What he does know about is that he can communicate with computers and electronic devices, kind of like a universal remote.
Weaknesses // Some of the things Seth does is reminiscent of a mouse. He doesn't say anything unless asked, and when confronted with a challenge, he backs down instantly. His personality is beyond soft. It can withstand blows just like tissue paper.
Song // Kristina She Don`t Know I Exist - Streetlight Manifesto
Birthday // May 15th
Voice // Quiet, soft, hesitant. Sometimes stutters when nervous.
Handwriting // Small, neat, clumped up letters.
Orientation // Straight
 ilafatyu · Sat Jul 09, 2011 @ 02:49am · 0 Comments |
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