Post by William Scratch on Aug 31, 2010 18:15:07 GMT -5
Name: William Scratch
Age: 18
Gender: Male
District/Area: 9
Appearance:
Personality:
History:
Age: 18
Gender: Male
District/Area: 9
Appearance:
Outwardly William is a prime example of a district 9 individual. Somber and efficient to the letter, William has a lean build possessed of wiry strength and whipcord muscle. His eyes are blue and sharp as polished steel, containing what is both a small hint of arrogance and a deeply buried cruelty. William has handsome, if not rather hawkish features and a smile that comes over as somewhere between understanding, affectionate best friend and deranged, violent lunatic.
Almost everyone in the districts possess scars and William is no different. His cheek bares a small incision received during a childhood scuffle while his shoulders and chest are raked with scars from when he once missed his evenings meal and the animal decided to kiss him goodnight. William has o tattoo's.
Generally speaking William dresses in practical clothes, though does steal whatever he can and keeps a collection of far more impressive garments, his favorite being a beaten, brown leather jacket and a pair of gloves he tends to wear whenever the fancy suits him.
Personality:
To meet William normally is to meet a boy who even at the age of eighteen can send shivers down your spine with his carefully calculated, softly spoken words and the almost perpetual cruelty and malice in his gaze. Yet at the same time William exudes an almost palatable charisma that makes people want to be liked by him.
Having educated himself with all manner of stolen, smuggled or found materials, William is comparatively widely read compared to most people in the districts with interests in many different things including military tactics, history, politics, folklore and medicine, with surgery being a strange fascination of his. He also has several highly taboo books on subjects which if discovered in his possession could mean a one way ticket to the firing squad, or worse.
William tends towards having a terrible temper at times and hates being treated without respect. His mood swings can range from merely sulking, to explosive, homicidal anger. William is without a doubt an incurable sociopath. William also admits to himself that he would enjoy a life of normality in another district, but knows this is impossible because of how District 9's near sole focus on hunting and it's heavy influences of violence and domination have left his mind a little warped out of shape.
History:
Born to a single mother who died during childbirth, William became a burden of the state and was thus discarded as all other burdens were. It was nothing short of impossible that he should survive but... as he would show in years to come William had a knack for survival. William was taken in by a woman who had lost her own child during childbirth and raised as one of the family, ignorant of being discarded.
As soon as he could walk William was taught the tactics of hunting, stealth and field-craft and soon became expert both with knife and bow. His families manner of training rather resembling the apache tribes of America. William proved himself to be a gifted hunter and won praise several times before he was eight for tracking down prized kills.
It was when William turned 12 things became difficult, Williams foster family were pulled up for some minor infringement of an obscure law, the details of what transpired are vague, but the end result was Williams foster family being killed on the spot for disobedience. William as he seemed to have a talent for doing survived and went into hiding, spending several weeks nursing himself better. When he was sufficiently recovered William became a fugitive within the district. It was during this time he developed a morbid fascination with surgery when he witnessed a doctor preforming a crude street abortion on a pregnant woman.
William spent the next few years learning all the ins and outs of the district, hunting what he needed to survive, stealing what he needed to keep himself sane. He has been involved in several violent incidents in which William was reported to have 'Bitten and clawed like a wild animal', biting off a district residents ear and nose during a fight over a killed rabbit.
More recently William has taken to lo w key crime within the district such as smuggling and selling things stolen from others. He can take a breath of relief now, for he is 18, and it's unlikely he'll be entered into the Hunger Games.