Post by George Hale on Aug 25, 2009 12:00:40 GMT
the roleplayer
NAME: Zabella
GENDER: Female
AGE: 14
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: About….a year? Yeah, a year.
OTHER CHARACTERS: Nobody
HOW YOU FOUND US: I…don’t remember. Sorry!
GEORGE WILLIAM HALE
People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl.
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world.
NAME: Zabella
GENDER: Female
AGE: 14
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: About….a year? Yeah, a year.
OTHER CHARACTERS: Nobody
HOW YOU FOUND US: I…don’t remember. Sorry!
GEORGE WILLIAM HALE
People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl.
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world.
character basics
NICKNAMES: Georgie (his female friends and relatives)
AGE: 16
GROUP: Student
YEAR: Year 11
BIRTHDAY: 4th April
GENDER: Male
PLAY-BY: Luke Grimesappearance
George has never cared that much about his appearance. Every time he looks in the mirror and sees that lanky, scruffy kid with messy blonde hair and two days of stubble on his chin, he makes a resolution to tidy himself up. But that never happens. George means well, but he just never gets round to it. It’s a pet peeve of his mother’s, but whenever confronted about it, he just looks down at his tiny parent, rubs the back of his neck as smiles bashfully, pleading her with warm brown eyes not to make a fuss. But Amelia Hale worked up immunity to that look years ago and swats him on the leg with a spatula, leaving a red mark on his freckly skin.personality
The first noticeable thing about George is that he’s quiet. Though tall, he doesn’t have much presence. In a crowded room, his head swooping above everybody else’s is the first thing you’d notice, but you’d quickly be distracted by somebody more lively. He isn’t quiet in an antisocial way, he’s more than happy to have friends and the friends he does have are normally more than happy to have him. George’s voice is soft and deep, often the voice of reason in his chaotic family. He has a gentle, almost tender smile on his face when looking at almost anybody, when speaking to him you feel like you’ve known him for years. He has a good memory, once you tell him the names of your family, even in passing, he will enquire after them amicably the next time he meets you. His quiet, steady personality makes him a rock in the river of life, one that people cling to when things get choppy. Whenever one of his friends has a problem, he’s their go-to man. George can’t even count the number of times a female friend has come rushing into his room in tears. George just sits there quietly, offering soft advice, but mostly just listening. He prides himself on his ability to listen, and happily shoulders the burden of other people’s problems.
Though the first impression of George is generally some sort of BFG, once you get to know him, you start noticing what is beneath the surface. George has a wicked sense of humour and can be quite cutting if he needs to be. He hardly ever uses it, but the comments and quips are all in his head, just waiting to come out. But there is one feature of George’s personality that only his family are currently aware of is that George is very melodramatic. He has been known to explain away many a failed test at school to his mother with pretty words and expansive gestures. At Somnium, however, nobody is aware of this side of him. George is distinctly uncomfortable with this, but does not know how to resolve it. Though he will speak with you, and sit with you, and comfort you, he is in fact too shy to do anything other than what is expected of him. He knows this is sort of stupid, and daily he resolves to fix it, but much like with his scruffy appearance, George stays in his habits.
At 6’0” and still growing, George is inevitably clumsy and it has come to the point that he is no longer allowed to do the washing up in his house. His siblings are convinced he fakes it to avoid chores, but then they see the paper plates and Styrofoam cups their mother makes George use, and they think maybe, just maybe, he really is that much of a klutz. Another thing that makes them think twice about it is that, all his life, George has hated liars. As an older sibling, George has found that lying makes sorting familial disputes almost impossible, as all involved claim not to have done the action in question. George is weak-willed on occasion, but simply threatening to let their mother or Molly deal with the situation is sometimes enough to force the liar to speak up. Otherwise, George throws up his hands and calls his mother from downstairs. Other than these frequent incidents, George has never had any traumatic experiences that involved lying. He has just instinctively hated rude people, liars and bullies. It was one of the reasons he was dreading private boarding school. He was sure that there would be many arrogant, rude rich kids. And he was right.George is more of a down-to-earth kind of person. He loves the great outdoors, and learnt how to fish, trap and set fires with his dad as a little kid. As a result he has a great tolerance for boredom, cold and hunger. The hours spent by the lake allowed him and his father to bond as well as making him a more patient person.family & history
FATHER: George Alfred O’Donnel, 49, plumber. As quiet and steady as George himself (so much so that he bucked tradition and allowed his wife’s surname to be that of his children’s), perhaps the reason George was named after him. Part of the reason George automatically hides his flair for drama is that he doesn’t want to disappoint his father.
MOTHER: Amelia Janet Hale, 51, nurse. Very much a London spitfire. Strong-willed, temperamental, and occasionally violent, Amelia passed all these traits down to her daughters.
SIBLINGS:
Connor, 21, fascinated by all science and completely overshadowed by his younger sister, Molly.
Molly, 19, bossy, temperamental and generally scary. Feared by all of the Hale kids, Connor included
Nathan, 15, idolizes George, the two are the closest of the Hale siblings.
Alfie, 12, the little troublemaker that the family love most when he’s sleeping.
Leah, 10, the baby sister, protected by four older brothers and a sister that’s scarier than all of them put together.
OTHER FAMILY: George’s family is huge, to big to list, but he is close to most of them.
HISTORY:
George met Amelia under very strange circumstances. She was working in Ireland for a year for the experience of a slightly different healthcare system, and George and his mates had been boozing in a nearby pub. It was around 2 am when the frazzled nurse and the apologetic, sober friend met in the waiting room. She lashed out at him, and when he said nothing, she kept going. And as she did, she progressed from frustrated nurse whose shift should have ended an hour ago to a tearful girl whose family were far away and who just wanted to go home. George comforted her, spoke to her superior, put her in the back of his car and drove her home, leaving his bewildered friends without a way to get out of hospital.
After two years, George proposed very romantically (he painted ‘Will you marry me, Amelia Hale?’ on the road outside their apartment. He was fined £250 for vandalism.) and they were married within a month. Connor was born a year into their marriage and that’s when the compromise was formed. George had been brought up as one of seven children, and had loved every moment of it. Whatever the problem was, there had always been somebody he could discuss it with. He had always wanted a large family of his own, but didn’t know who to tastefully bring it up with his pint-sized firework of a wife. When Amelia, a devout feminist and knowing her husbands traditional views occasionally clashed with her own, asked carefully if the children could bear her surname, she wasn’t all that surprised when he offered a compromise. In return for all future kids of theirs to be ‘____ Hale’ rather than ‘____ O’Donnell’ he asked one huge favour. That they have at least five children.
At first, Amelia was daunted by the prospect of so many children. But she was convinced when Molly was born that it would be good for the children to have lots of brothers and sisters. It would be hard work, but it would be worth it. She was right. The Hale brood were tight-knit, if prone to infighting. One of George’s earliest memories was of Connor teasing him in front of the school gates about being too scared to go in. George was yelling at him that he was brave enough, all the while edging slowly away from the huge building that housed both a primary and a secondary school. Connor continued his taunting until an acquaintance/potential friend of his joined in. Connor immediately span around and screamed for a good ten minutes at the boy for insulting his brother. In the meantime, George walked smugly through the gates.
This was after they had moved to England when George was seven. Amelia had lived far away from her family for a long time, and as George’s relatives were on the other side of Ireland or scattered across Australia and America, he agreed they would move back to London. George had until now been able to go and wander around in the forests and fields at the back of their comfortable converted farmhouse, and he felt distinctly uncomfortable and a little choked by the huge, sprawling city that was London. Leah is the only child that feels really at home there, as the rest of the Hales were born in Ireland, and stubbornly refuse to lose their accents.
The family, though close, completely rely on Amelia to guide them, in a strange role reversal in which the father is in the back seat. George Snr., even stronger than George, often holes himself away in his study when Amelia is out. George and Molly are very close, because his eternal patience and calm balances by the fiery temper and iron rule of his sister kept their siblings in line on many a rainy day. This practical attitude, though it served him well as a child, as a teenager it began to let him down. He didn’t do well in classrooms, where structure was forced on him and the teachers were unintentionallydream form
George’s dream form is a skeleton in a suit, often wearing a top hat. The suit is black with grey pinstripes and the hat looks to be from around the Victorian era. This form stems from three values that are very important to George. Firstly, the skeleton is for honesty, the human body in the most basic form, all ‘lies’ stripped away. Secondly, the suit is because George aspires to become somebody respectable, not famous or a prodigy, just a decent person his family can be proud of. But thirdly, and most importantly, George as a skeleton, a way nobody can recognise him unless he chooses, is the best, and arguably the only way for George to show his theatrical persona and be allowed to use all the brutal quips inside his head without feeling guilty afterwards.