Post by Matt McArthur on Aug 15, 2009 21:20:36 GMT
the roleplayer
NAME: November
GENDER: fweep
AGE: tweep
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: eep
OTHER CHARACTERS: Sebastian, Reginald, Elliot, Althea
HOW YOU FOUND US: in a fingernail
Matthew McArthur
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NAME: November
GENDER: fweep
AGE: tweep
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: eep
OTHER CHARACTERS: Sebastian, Reginald, Elliot, Althea
HOW YOU FOUND US: in a fingernail
Matthew McArthur
HERE YOU CAN PLACE LYRICS OR QUOTES THAT DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER.
character basics
NICKNAMES: Matthew McAWESOME (or just Matt)
AGE: 17
GROUP: Student
YEAR: Year 11 (was held back a year after flunking GCSEs)
BIRTHDAY: 23rd November
GENDER: male
PLAY-BY: Emile Hirschappearance
Matt has the unkempt and dishevelled look going on. Dark brown strands of hair stick up at odd ends on his scalp, and a constant splattering of stubble shadows the bottom half of his face. Matt's facial hair grows with incredible speed. If left unshaven for a week or so he develops a full-on beard, which causes him to double in age (appearance-wise at least) almost automatically. He uses this to his advantage in a variety of ways, such as buying alcohol and cigars (Matt doesn't actually smoke cigars but for some reason he always gets the urge to buy them when he has a beard). Most of the time, however, he remains partially shaved, mainly because his bearded self is often frowned upon whilst in the Academy. Another feature that is usually on Matt's face, apart from the stubble, is a smile. When his mouth isn't smiling his green eyes normally are.
Matt stands at around six feet in height and has a quite stocky build. He doesn't really work out at all so the stockiness is all genetic. He has reasonably good skin beneath all the hair, but, like most teenage boys, he does get the occasional spot here and there. He normally pops them as soon as he notices them though (it's quite a habit of his).
Clothing-wise Matt sticks to whatever is comfortable. He is a great lover of comfort so anything that is itchy or causes him to squirm is a strict no-no. His wardrobe consists of crumpled shirts and tee-shirts and ripped jeans and sweatpants. When the weather's cold he adds to the outfit with an oversized hooded jumper. The vast majority of his clothes (particularly his socks, shoes and underwear) contain holes.personality
The primary word that most people use to describe Matt is 'slacker'. Most people have got it right. Matt is a typical slacker, always leaving jobs until the last minute or simply never doing them at all. He lives for the here and now, any concepts concerning 'planning for the future' is completely lost on him. He severely lacks foresight, he even lacks hindsight. The fact that he failed the majority of his GCSEs, thus causing to stay behind a year, has yet to really affect him and, in all honesty, it probably never will.
Matt never actively strives to be lazy or completely unaware of the whole 'actions leading to consequences' thing, but, unfortunately, he is. When a person has as little grasp of time as Matt does one can easily just let it drift by without a second glance. Even when he purposefully tries to get something done he usually gets distracted away from it, like a moth to a flame (in fact Matt would easily get pulled away from work by the prospect of a moth going into a flame). He can find the most insignificant things entertaining, which means he rarely gets bored.
His laziness does not mean that he's unfriendly. Although Matt doesn't specifically go out to meet new people, his easy-go-lucky and carefree attitude towards life makes it quite simple for him to make friends. He's a joker by nature, loving the sound of laughter in his midst. But as a friend he does have the recurring tendency to be thoughtless, often saying things he shouldn't due to his extreme forgetfulness more than any actual meanness. Also don't expect him to remember any birthdays, he barely remembers his own.
Also his lack of looking-before-leaping means that Matt has a rather reckless personality. It's not like he seeks risks but just doesn't really notice them when they come straight at him. In Matt's case the 'not-looking-before-leaping' analogy would be better described as 'not-looking-before-accidentally-stumbling-into'.
Yet, buried deep down inside the fluff that is Matt's brain, is an actual mathematical whiz kid. He can do advanced calculations in his head within a matter of seconds, work out difficult Sudoku puzzles without flinching. This innate gift with numbers is the reason that Matt didn't completely fail the entirety of his GCSEs, only failing the subjects that didn't include a significant portion of maths. One thing Matt loves more than maths problems, however, is sleeping.family & history
FATHER: Boris McArthur, 58. Professor of Mathematics at Durham University.
MOTHER: Wendy McArthur, 56. Doctor.
SIBLINGS: Caroline McArthur, 32. Researcher at Durham University.
HISTORY:
Matt's birth came as a surprise to everyone in the family. After his older sister had been born his mother went through an operation to render her infertile, obviously it didn't work. Matthew McArthur was born red and screaming in Durham University Teaching Hospital whilst ten trainee doctors watched the event with a mixture of awe and disgust. The birth was said to be a medical miracle. At age forty-two many would've assumed Mrs McArthur would have been unable to produce a child even without having had the operation to tie her tubes more than fourteen years before.
Matt grew up in the shadow of a sister fifteen years his elder. Because his parents had their fill of looking after children after his sister, Caroline, reached around the age of sixteen (she was a very sensible teenager) they pretty much left him to his own devices. Mr McArthur was busy with his professorship at Durham and Mrs McArthur was always working long hours at the hospital. Due to their vast age difference Caroline was also very distant towards her younger brother.
When Matt was of the age to attend primary school his parents enrolled him in the best one in the area. It was in school where Matt's personality truly blossomed. Since he had never been given much discipline he had developed quite a indifference towards authority figures, teachers were such authority figures. They couldn't get him to do anything. The only subject he really excelled in was Maths but that was only because he enjoyed it. With such classes as English and the other humanities he would never listen and spend the lesson staring out the window, or simply just falling asleep.
Expecting that it was the school environment that was causing their son's lack of activity Matt's parents enrolled him in a different school, then another one, then another. Finally it seemed only one conclusion was to be drawn, Matt simply did not care about school. In the end they sent him to Somnium Academy, hoping that perhaps a boarding school would right their odd son.dream form
Matt's dream form is that of a singing hobo. Well in all honesty his dream form is just himself, a few years older with an exceptionally overgrown beard and very raggedy clothing. He does sing though, and quite well too, unlike Matt's real world form. Although his dream form is essentially himself he is quite unrecognisable due to his seriously unkempt appearance. If one ever tried to cut his dream form's beard then it would just grow back instantaneously. The same result occurs when trying to wipe the dirt off of Matt's dream form's face. Luckily, unlike most hobos, his dream form doesn't smell bad. In fact his dream form smells quite good, like strawberries.
