User blog:AngryLance/The unfortunate survivor

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This is my first ever attempt at a character for use in RP's. He also serves as a sort-of "prototype" for a character in a side-scrolling game i plan to work on in the near future (hopefully) and this serves to retroactively flesh him out better (if that could work). Any questions, writing suggestions, constructive criticism and tips on improvements are very much welcomed. The page is still work-in-progress and can be subjected to changes.

Name: Lance 'Thompson' Lake

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Nationality: American/Romanian (due to his parents being american refugees)

Hometown: Romania, one of many american ocupated districts.

Current rezidence: Mirefield, Order town (due to dimensional displacement).

Occupation: Currently no occupation.

Skills:

- Medium to good skills with firearms (due to his passion for First-Person-Shooters and light-gun arcade games; briefly participating in shooting sports and hunting together with his grandfather).

- Low close-quarter-combat skills due to mostly avoiding conflict (and losing the few fight he had due to being outmatched).

- Medium creative skills and resourcefulness (such as improvising tactics, melee weapons and tools).

- Above mentioned skills become enhanced after the Incident, due to (forcefully) acquiring a "transplant" of unknown origins.

Relationships:

Matthew Lake - Biological father. A harsh and cold person, never accepted Lance for who he was and always had high expectation which Lance could never reach. Was more preocupied with spending time playing sports and drinking with his friends than spend time with Lance. And for the rare times he did spent time with Lance, he had little patience for him and often got mad at him for various reasons.

Anne Lake (Maiden name: Thompson) - Biological mother. Left his family when Lance was four years old due to Matthews abusive attitude. Years later when Lance learned her whereabouts and decided to meet her again, he found out that his mother remarried and simply moved on with her life, seemingly forgetting about Lance.

Joan Lake (Maiden name: Daniels) - Step mother. Matthew remarried after two years from the divorce. A somewhat respectable woman but had a similar harsh attitude towards Lance at times due to her own "set of morals", that Lance is not as succcesfull as her biological son, David (and subtly lashing out at him due to Matthews abusive ways once again).

David Daniels - Step brother. Did not actually lived with Lance and his family, but lived in another neibourhood with roommates. Despite Lance's dysfunctional family, he always got along with David quite well and even took Lance's side many times. Lance trully cared about David and saw him as the only one who undwerstood him. Even still though, deep down Lance also felt he lived in David's shadow...

Alistair Lake - Grandfather from father's side. After his father died in a car accident when he was 22 years old, Lance was approached by a man who introduced himself as his grandfather. Lance was taken aback by this, asking that why he never visited once or why his aunt or father never once mentioned him. Alistair spoke of a falling out between the two, that they never spoke to each other again, being unable to get through to them and hoping he could make amends with his only grandchild. In the next four years Alistair would attempt to make up to Lance for his fathers's cold treatment, spend time together with him, become the father figure he never had. If only Lance knew...



Physical characteristics:

Height: 1,55 meters

Weight: 61 kilograms (in human form)

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Dark brown

Skin color: Light (sometimes pale)

Race: Human/Unknown

Distinguishing features: Bags under eyes and eyes appear sometimes bloodshot due to massive stress and trauma.

Health: Sound (due to enhanced biology).

Abilities: Many physical abilities due to enhanced biology (to be further detailed).

Disability: Low pain tolerance, prone to bruising, poor stamina (somewhat improved due to the "transplant")

 Style: Usually prefers a hoddie with a short-sleeved shirt underneath, jeans (sometimes alternates to tracksuit pants) and generic sneakers combo, which he feels most confortable in either cold or temperate climate (in cold weather he sometimes adds a polyester jacket if it feels too cold). After the dimensional displacement, he may need a change of wardrobe which might depend on what he finds.

 Traits/Habits and personality: Lance is polite and chill when interacting with people, if a bit gloomy at times. Always tries to be amiable, friendly, reasonable, understanding and even funny when dealing with people. Over time this has become   a sort of charade he puts on to hide his general awkwardness and anxiety, only opening up to people he feels he can fully trust. Being an introvert, he usually keeps to himself and doesn’t involve himself lightly in various things (unless it is something urgent or important). In some rare cases when in a sufficient good mood or to aleviate stress, he might turn to sarcasm and quip some jokes.

 Despite his demeanor, Lance is prone to anger issues. When distressed, he quickly becomes nervous and even risks having an anxiety attack if it goes on for too long (he will attempt to keep calm). Afterwards, be could become irate or even angry. Depending on how the situation progresses, he could become passive-agressive, speaking with clenched teeth or full out raising his voice, even spouting insults and profanaties. All this is due to emotional abuse, neglect and physical abuse at times during his life.

 He hates ostracization and being looked down on. When confrunted he becomes highly defensive and may demand to be left alone. He often has moments when he spaces out   and after snapping out of it he always checks around cautiously to see if anyone is looking weird at him. Many people just asumed he is an air-head when in fact he just contemplates about various things (mostly about himself and his troubles). Due to his somewhat disfunctional upbringing and partialy chaotic environment, he grew rather distrustful of people and only had a few friends he could trust. Despite that, he still hopes he can get along with whatever new person he meets and not be judged, mocked or double crossed by them.

 Hobbies: 

 Videogames - while a common and unproductive hobbie, Lance always loved to mentally roleplay as a hero who saves the day in these, it’s what always gave him a feeling a security and reasuranced. Over time it lost it’s charm to him and didn’t gave him as much satisfaction as before.

 Drawing - was never a profesional but it was always a simple pleasure and a creative outlet. Persued educations in highschool and college related to art but after college he simply was not as motivated as before, for unknown reasons.

 When regarding vices, he used to be a bit addicted to pornography (specificaly hentai), but he grew more and more disgusted with it when he learned that more „questionable” genres became very popular, perhaps due to being unable to pass over his own bias.

 Favorite sayings: Doesn’t have a particular saying, instead he uses pop-culture references... which are not that often understood and has to explain the jokes sometimes.

 Speech patern: Usually speaks in a chill, albeit low voice, unless distressed or angered. Also, because of being an introvert, he may stutter from time to time the longer he talks or when he has an ocasional lapse in vocabulary.

 Greatest flaw: 

 Temper – due to being abused and neglected he has developed anger issues, which he tries his best to control. This is further worsen by the Incident.

 Best quality: 

 Difficult to asses. At best Lance had a strong sense of justice that gradually waned over time and sometimes tried to be a helpful person. He was never given a real chance to show virtues apart from persisting in opposing his grandfather and fighting him and the horrors unleashed by him, despite the constant fear and feelings of hopelessness. If anything, the same anger that proved a problem for Lance before may have also served as a good replacement for his resolve.

 Intelectual and mental atributes: 

<p class="MsoNormal"> Educational background:

<p class="MsoNormal"> -Finished a generic/general education school in his district with acceptable grades.

<p class="MsoNormal"> -Finished „John Socol” Highschool of architecture (in hopes of honing his drawing skills) with mediocre grades.

<p class="MsoNormal"> -Finished College of Historical Arts at University of Bucharest (3 years). Due to many failed exams and falling behind, he was forced to stay an extra year and a half in order to recover his grades and pass.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Learning experiences: Nothing special in particular.

<p class="MsoNormal"> IQ Level: 121

<p class="MsoNormal"> Mental condition: Poor

<p class="MsoNormal"> Short term goal: To better understand his current situation and survive.

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Backstory: To be viewed here.

Powers and Abilities: To be viewed here.