Sept
Astin, Sean
Caucasian Male
5'7" 170ish
DOB: 02251971
Fair Hair / Light eyes (hazel?) -- DL shows brown, but they looked greenish to me
Born: Santa Monica, CA
Marital status: single, no divorce records
Employed: DBY Productions
No outstanding warrants
DL: clear and valid, class A CDL
CCH: none
Fingerprints on file: yes (conscientious fucker, isn't he?)
SS: contributes
IRS: nothing outstanding
No traffic tickets, no complaints, credit history is practically fucking perfect -- this bloke is from outer fucking space
attached: see IRS records
see SSA records
see UCLA transcripts
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Off the top of my head, I'd peg him classic anxiety disorder. I want him to disinterest me completely, but that just ain't so, is it? The guy is a walking fucking neurosis. He's got the lowest activation threshold I have ever personally witnessed.
Literally everything stresses this bloke out. Combine this with the fact that my gut tells me his chances of psychoticism are slim and none, I have to say there is little to no chance of this bloke being a suspect. Give this bloke a gun, and his hands would sweat so much he'd drop it. Point a gun at him, and I'm betting he'd fight or flight on the spot (hell, he activates if I so much as speak to him, though he doesn't activate so easily for anyone else, so far as I've noticed -- he has the highest activation threshold with Depp, but then again, Depp raises everyone's activation threshold by his mere presence), though I don't think he'd actually be together enough to either run or attack. I think he'd faint (which I know isn't a very common flight response to high-stress activation, but that's just my best guess) or just freeze solid right there. I occasionally have trouble restraining my curiosity.
I haven't fully categorized his individual response specificity (I haven't seen him enough to do so), but I've witnessed the sweats and the repeating speech difficulties (stuttering in his case, and broken vocalization of other sorts), and muscular tension. I can't judge blood pressure or heart rate, but I'd bet on it. Orlando says he gets headaches, too. Migraines. I'm betting some Prozac would clear those buggers right up.
Poor excitable bastard.
He exhibits elements of OCD, though I hesitate to characterize this due to lack of any solid evidentiary support. -- note -- check type O - OCD re: Depp
I'm guessing much of his current behavior can be traced back to a combination of childhood instability and possibly hereditary factors. There's no real way to check this, of course, as I'm betting he'd sooner set me on fire than tell me about his childhood. Just as well, I don't really give a damn.
Most interesting is his relationship with Johnny, the way that Johnny affects his normally volatile nerves. Johnny's like a natural balm for Astin, like Johnny puts out some sort of low-grade "calm down, man" signals that Astin gets, processes, and unfailingly attempts to implement. I've seen it enough times to be sure of it, and honestly it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. It's impossible to pinpoint the actual categorization for the relationship, as it ranges all over the spectrum, father, brother, lover (although I doubt very much if this is an actuality), friend, boss, caregiver (type O - OCD rearing it's head here?) and peer. Very complex, and very ritualized.
Codependency is no small part of it, although from my (limited) perspective, I'd say the results of this particular association are nearly all positive. The two of them really do almost require one another to be functional (makes me wonder what either of them did before the other was around, how fucking dysfunctional their lives must have been) in a full capacity. Johnny keeps Astin from flying to pieces on a regular basis, Astin keeps Johnny more focused on reality (as focused as Johnny is capable of being, at any rate), to the extent where he (with Astin's help) can successfully run a business of DBY's size (not monumental, but a fairly decent size). Johnny gives Astin something to focus on and strive toward, Astin gives Johnny unquestioning loyalty coupled with scrupulous honesty (and the bloke needs it, considering his unshakable optimism about the basic goodness of humanity). They complete each other to such a degree that I find it nearly impossible imagining one of them operating successfully without the other.
Conversely, Astin (who is not the sort of bloke to openly display his negative feelings) seems to treat Orlando with some slight contempt (though of such a mild nature it might not even be noticeable in someone less emotionally inept than Astin). He seems to regard Orlando as a mildly disruptive nuisance to his routine, brainless and pointless, and tends to ignore him for the most part. The exception to this being when Orlando and Johnny are interacting in Astin's presence, at which time Astin activates, indicating that this interaction is somehow a stressor for him. Jealousy? I don't have enough information to say, but I'd speculate that it is, that Astin feels threatened by Johnny's (very obvious) feelings for Orlando.
Infantile abandonment fears, fears of no longer being needed (although really, the idea that Orlando could replace Astin as Johnny's "go to guy" is frankly ridiculous -- which of course doesn't change the fact that Astin probably fears such a replacement, seeing as Johnny is such a central figure in Astin's "life"), and simple resentment are all probably factors in this behavior.
Keira he treats with some modicum of friendship (possibly as much as he's really capable of giving, which speaks well for Keira), in as much as he doesn't ignore her, speaks to her in complete sentences, and seems to activate only when Johnny is paying an inordinate amount of attention to her. He seems almost neutral toward Keira, though honestly, I've only seen the two of them interact a very few times.
He seems to place inanimate objects very high in his personal regard, possibly replacing friendships and relationships with more trustworthy things. I can't really tell if he actually humanizes his cameras, but I think it's a fair bet. Haven't seen him with them enough to be sure, and ideally I'd have to see him with them alone (or assuming he's alone, obviously) to be really sure.
He's oddly low on empathy (for the most part) for a bloke who is so internally complex. Those with deeply low self-esteem generally display a higher level of empathy than I've noted in Astin, but this may be a situation in which the presence of the observer (me) affects the behavior of the subject. He doesn't like me, and anytime I'm around he tends to shut down.
Of course, that makes every one of these observations prone to error.
But I'll make do.