SUUUUURVEY!!!!!
Body and Appearance
1. Describe the character's height and build. Is he heavyset, thin, short, rangy? He’s not particularly tall for a boy, in fact, positively short for a hero type, but he’s about five nine by my guess And Damn you marvel, if you can't keep your record straight I am just going to keep calling middle ground. He’s sort of lanky and awkward in that way most teenage boys are before they are fully grown up.
2. How old is he? Eighteen. Though his headcanoned birthday is March 17th, roughly according to when a comic came out where it mentions his birthday so he's TECHNICALLY 19 in SP
3. Describe his posture. Does he carry himself well or does he slouch? Trauma slouches like crazy, it’s actually in question if he can stand up straight. When he gets nervous or uncomfortable he gets worse and practically bends in half to shove his hands in his pockets. He rarely stands up straight, and when he does it’s normally because his powers have activated and he’s pissed off or because he’s trying to act tough. The later blows up in his face almost every time.
4. How is his health? Is he fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities? Terry is very healthy, he doesn’t get sick often and was called on it every winter in school when everybody else would catch the stupid flu bug and he’d be the only kid not sniffling like crazy. He’d sometimes catch it for a day and be fine in the morning, but overall he is crazy healthy. This is also why Trauma is a big baby when he actually is sick, the maybe three or four times he has been. He’s fairly fit due to the three or so months of training and crazy he went through and though he was never a fast or very good at endurance until recently, he has always just been oddly lanky no matter what he ate or how much or little he did.
He also tends to get REALLY bad powers related headaches and basically will just sit and grumble over them half the time because OW. It's like having chronic migraines.
5. How does he move? Is he clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?
Tense. Trauma is constantly tense as hell, he walks either faster or slower than the people with him depending on which is more likely to keep them an arm away or so. He generally has either his hands shoved in his pockets or crossed. He constantly looks like he either feels out of place or he’s half molded to the wall or whatever the backdrop is. In short, Trauma is Awkward with a capital A.
SP: He's gotten a little better about this. And by a little, I mean he doesn't do this to Dio and Jinx 99% of the time.
6. How attractive is this character physically? How does he perceive himself in the mirror? He’s fairly attractive, you know…When he smiles. Which is rare. But really, when he tries and actually talks then he’s a pretty attractive guy. Does he think he is? Not really. Something about the whole powers being fear thing makes him not too sure people actually want to be around him at ALL let alone in any kind or romantic sense. It’s sort of tanked his self confidence like crazy.
7. Describe his complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred? Boy is PALE. He would look sick if it weren’t natural and nobody since ever had seen him darker than that. He has a scar on the back of his ankle from a fence when he was ten, and another on his forearm from where he broke it when he was six falling off the playground equipment.
In SP he gained a scar up almost into his hairline on the right side because SOMEONE had to take the dipstick to a bar and SOMEONE and dipstick got their asses kicked.
8. Describe his hair: color, texture, style. Brown, though he periodically dyes it black and then decides he doesn’t like it or lets it go due to time then dyes it back XD . It’s sort of thick and far too straight and if it’s not careful it looks greasy as hell. ( Also the colorists don't seem to know what the fuck his hair color is.)
9. What color are his eyes? Blue. Light blue actually. But they turn red with the whole power thing. REALLY BRIGHT GLOWY RED.
So the answer he’d prefer you to go with is blue. And he might actually pitch something at you if you comment on the red eyes thing too long.
10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features? Not really. He sort of looks like your generic long haired emo kid. Yes, Marvel. I just said that.
11. What are his chief tension centers? EVERYTHING EVER. But for real, The middle of his back, his shoulders, his jaw. He is SO going to get arthritis cause his hands are nifty little tension centers too. He tries so hard not to, but it makes him pop his knuckles a lot as a result.
12. What is the character's wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does he have six of the same suit? Trauma wears a lot of black. Lots of blacks and reds and things like that. He is really font of the semi dress shirt, jacket, semi nice pants/jeans and sneakers look. Trauma naturally likes to be comfortable in what he’s wearing so the likelihood is all pants and shirts have been worn MANY times beforehand. ...Those two things might not match up to most people, but he's comfortable like that so *SHRUGS*. If he's not dressed like that, it's sweatshirts and dark cargo pants and things like that...cause you get used to semi-military clothes after a while. Also, stores are centers of people being unhappy with their appearance/afraid of how they look. DO YOU REALLY THINK TRAUMA WANTS TO TAKE TWO STEPS INTO THE MALL? NO? I DID NOT THINK SO. 9/10 you can bet he likely got something out of a thrift store or something.
......Also he had to buy a new coat cause his roommate is a bitch who steals clothing. And he's stolen Dio's more than once because it's THERE and if Dio's not going out why the fuck not? Jinx has at least one of his, so why not perpetuate theft.
13. Do his clothes fit well? Does he seem comfortable in them?
I touched on this. Yes, they do for the most part. And yes, he is hella comfy in them. He’s tense enough WITHOUT adding to it :/
14. Does he dress the same on the job as he does in his free time? If not, what are the differences? Yes, he dresses different on the job. He has a nifty cammo pants-tea shirt-combat boots thing going. He actually REALLY likes the boots. After he wore them in they were fucking COMFORTABLE now he doesn’t wear different shoes too often. <-- CANON but in SP? ...He kind of pushes the boundary of how dressed down you can be at work. Because he hates his current boss.
15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando? Boxers. Did we remember this Trauma likes comfy clothes thing?
Speech
1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse? Trauma is stuck VERY much in the middle. It’s a little on the higher end for a guy, but still nothing remarkable at ALL.
2. How does he normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does he talk easily, or does he hesitate? He speaks pretty evenly when he isn’t thinking someone is being an idiot…in which case he adds a shitton of sarcasm and who the hell knows. He has a really bad habit of hesitating constantly. Sometimes for emphasis and sometimes because he’s really not sure if he actually wants to talk in the first place. On the whole he’s not the biggest talker in the first place so it’s always a bit of a debate if he wants to share. On the other hand his internal dialogue is constant and insistent. Trauma never shuts up in his own head. Psychics would be quickly annoyed. ....Also would hear a weird creepy undercurrent of fear shit...but that's not the point.
3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics? The hesitating thing cause it’s annoying as hell. He waits for you to fill in the blank on occasion and overall pauses for emphasis at will. Basically the constant stopping and starting of talking thing for him is the biggest issue.
4. What language/s does he speak, and with how much fluency? Terry speaks English…and only English. He took about a year of Spanish in JR. High and almost failed the class and was going to try German Sr. year but…well… He can’t pronounce most weeboo terms at all and much hilarity was caused when Rachel would try and talk to him about any of it. He has a tin ear for other languages in short.
5. Does he switch languages or dialects in certain situations? Nope. Not at ALL. He would like to be able to but CAN’T. Powers are the only way this happens :/ It’s actually a part of his powers he finds entertaining cause he’s so bad at it normally it makes no sense to him as something he can copy.
6. Is he a good impromptu speaker, or does he have to think about his words? He likes to think about his words. He likes to. Does this mean he always does? No. But he’s often a lot more real and more the Terry his friends in school knew when he just sort of talks instead of watching his words constantly.
7. Is he eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change? He’s eloquent rarely, but doesn’t often fall all the way to inarticulate. He manages okay most of the time. When he’s angry and not really thinking or when he’s trying VERY hard to be diplomatic is when he’s at his best. Or surprisingly when he’s trying to be comforting. He’s a little more obviously self deprecating at the time, but he’s a hell of a lot more eloquent. He also is often very nifty going into power mode, whatever he says tends to be pretty…..Cutting? Is probably the best way to say it.
Mental and Emotional
1. How intelligent is this character? Is he book-smart or street-smart?
Trauma is not as book smart as he’d like to be, but that’s because if he had his way he wouldn’t have to try and fumble through a conversation EVER. He’s pretty smart, nowhere near genius level or anything, but the kind of person who where they study and are damn good at tests and get through school pretty well. He retains facts well, in that sort of if he’s interested he knows EVERYTHING EVER kind of way. He will actively work to know everything he can if he likes something enough.
2. Does he think on his feet, or does he need time to deliberate?
He thinks on his feet surprisingly well, he makes the decisions he is either proudest of or angriest at in the moment, but they are always the choice he would have made without a doubt. When he thinks about things he constantly checks himself and negates his own ideas to the point where he waits too long and fucks up. And he’d much rather make any decision then fuck up because he did nothing.
3. Describe the character's thought process. Is he more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical? Intuitive. Trauma would like to think he is logical, but he reacts emotionally and reactively. He also doesn’t always recognize it, but he’s constantly reading people in an undercurrent. He tries to watch and figure out. This doesn’t mean he’s always right, not at all.
4. What kind of education has the character had? He has his GED. He wasn’t able to finish High school for obvious reasons.
5. What are his areas of expertise? What, if anything, is he interested in learning more about? He can tell you all of Darth Vader’s apprentices, He can give you a list of Jedi killed in the first wave of order 66, he can tell you which novels are canon or not…he can quote most of a New Hope without actually having the movie playing….
Oh, what? You wanted something besides his (oh so minor I tell you) obsession with Star Wars?
Trauma has a sad sad level of knowledge about current affairs of 2006/7 due to getting bored and the internet after sequestering himself in his house. He can tell you a lot about old movies. Anything older than the eighties. He’s not much a fan of the brat pack. (It feels like it’s catering a little too much to his age group XD) He has a morbid interest in forensics, and periodically you’ll catch him reading true crime books for a week or two at a time before he goes back to sci-fi/horror/fantasy for a while. He used to have something of a crazy level of knowledge about monster movies. Old school monster movies. He doesn’t like to think about that much anymore but he still does. Also, is kinda James Dean fan. East of Eden more than Rebel Without A Cause, thank you very much. (Fact: Only became interested originally when he found out about the Alec Guinness premonition.) Also, shut up. He likes the book too. That might be why there's the movie preference.
He’d like to learn to play more then three or four songs on the guitar but he sort of stopped trying back in JR. year. (SP: Dio got him a guitar for Christmas. Now he kind of messes with it in the hopes to get something decent out of it. ) He’d very much like to learn a language he didn’t suck at. He wants to know more about mental health care, more specifically late onset issues. (SP: he's acquired and read a stunning amount of psychology books. I meant it when I said he studies what he finds interesting.) Who has mother issues? He does :| Also, again with the forensics. That used to terrify his librarian in Jr high. :/ He was on that list of kids to watch. Oh yes, he was…
6. Is he an introvert or an extrovert? Introvert. VERY much an introvert. Trauma isn’t the best with people on a good day. On a bad day he’s positively awful. But occasionally he tries.
7. Describe the character's temperament. Is he even-tempered or does he have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven? PESSIMIST. Trauma is a PESSIMIST. He’s quiet and tense….He doesn’t do mood swings very often at all, but when you manage to get him angry or happy or ANYTHING it’s such an obvious change that he looks like it’s an extreme mood change. He used to be better about this? But since powers kicked in? Not so much.
8. How does he respond to new people or situations? Is he suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic? Suspicious, but this is, once again, a more recent issue. He was never really outgoing about it, but he used to be more interested then anything. He’s still very curious, but now suspicion and nerves play a much larger part in things.
9. Is he more likely to act, or to react? React in most cases, unless he has to act NOW but even that’s a reaction to the fact that he’s going ‘WTF WHY ISN’T ANYONE DOING SOMETHING’. He used to be MUCH more act based, but certain….issues stepped in the way of thinking that was a good idea. At the moment he is much more reactive.
10. Which is his default: fight or flight? He wishes it were flight. HE WISHES. Unfortunately for him, when you get him going he responds in strongest way he can. He cares much more than he wishes he did.
11. Describe the character's sense of humor. Does he appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks? He is a fan of in-jokes. He really likes the sense of HA we have a joke you don’t get. A little mean? Yes. But he loves it. He has a black comedy sense of humor most of the time. Yes, this means he is a fan of JTHM. That kind of black humor.
He also begrudgingly is a fan of jokes that have someone else as the butt of the joke. It’s the idea of, at least it isn’t him, and then there’s the small amount of mean spirited glee that comes out of something that really is funny. Schadenfreude is his friend. More than he would like it to be.
On the other hand Terry is really bad at laughing at himself unless he’s really REALLY comfortable with the person making the joke and since those people are next to nil you can guess how often that happens.
12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does he deal with them? No. But Canon will drive him insane if it keeps at it.
13. What moments in this character's life have defined him as a person?
1. His little brother being born.
2. Start of high school
3. POWERS
4. His mom :/
5. Locking himself in the house
6. The conversation with his dad.
7. Leaving.
8. Camp Hammond.
9. MVP deaded.
10. Dani the bestest most awesomest teacher ever.
ALSO.
SP in no real order
Jinx in general, Claudio in general, Dying....ER. CAN WE CALL THAT WHOLE WEEK A Dio getting captured, Jinx getting her crazy on, APT of Emo actually being a thing....
14. What does he fear?
Dying alone. He is TERRIFIED of being alone at the end and having no one care that he died. He is also afraid of it being like he never existed. He’s afraid of disappearing. He’s afraid of never being able to be near people again. Basically he’s a walking neurosis.
15. What are his hopes or aspirations? At this point? He wants to get rid of or control his powers. Whichever gets it so he isn’t a danger. It’s sad, but nothing much beyond this.
He used to think off and on about wanting to become something to do with forensics or maybe writing about that….but it sort of got forcibly tossed by the wayside.
16. What is something he doesn't want anyone to find out about him? That he really as terrified as he is. He’s constantly scared and doesn’t want people to know :/
Relationships
1. Describe this character's relationship with his parents.
His relationship with his parents used to be really great. He was one of the few teenagers who actually had a decent relationship with his parents. He had the kind of relationship with them where he felt like he could go to them with the issues when his powers emerged and when they didn’t react as well as he could have hoped that almost felt like a betrayal. His Dad’s more than his Mothers. There is guilt with his Mom’s crazy. There is anger for his Dad’s basically telling him to leave even if he did agree.
(No, he does not know who real daddy is. …..Will this mess with his head? YES.)
2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like? Billy. His little brother is actually one of his favorite people on the planet. Do not tell Billy this because he does have an image to keep up thank you very much.
He used to be the person Billy came to when he was scared, they were pretty close. He gleefully shared his love of all things geeky with the kid and it wasn’t uncommon to have him act out a light saber fight with him as the eventual loser for Billy’s amusement. He also used to spend time trying to come up with stories for him when he was about seven or so Billy started trying to help him so it was a game for years of who could come up with the best plot twists to impress the other.
Granted Terry was often more ‘impressed’ than he was impressed. But he went by effort and not originality.
And the time that Billy let the hero get turned into a frog in the middle of fighting the dragon and STILL beat the dragon was pretty epic. Even for a nine year old telling the story.
(He has two half siblings he is not aware of)
3. Are there other blood relatives to whom he is close? Are there ones he can't stand? Terry has some younger cousins that are the banes of his existence because they are like….thirteen and fifteen. ….He is not fond of them for they are harder to deal with than most for they are spoiled and annoying. His grandparents on his father’s side are pretty cool, though they didn't ever like his mother much from what he could tell as he got older and he didn't really know what to do with that fact.
His dad has a sister and a brother, the brother is the one with the brat cousins (their younger siblings are like ...six and three and he likes them...hopes they doesn't turn out like the other two.). The sister is kind of cool and her kids are older than Terry.
His mom's side of the family he doesn't know too much about. He knows she has a younger sister, but he's never met her, or his grandparents on that side.
4. Are there other, unrelated people whom he considers part of his family? What are his relationships with them? Not really. His Dad’s best friend is pretty close to the family and he used to drag them up with his family to this stupid cabin in the middle of fucking nowhere. Aside from hating the cabin like burning he liked him and his family fine XDD The older girl used to have movie marathons with him and Billy all hours into the night. And the baby couldn’t talk so she wasn’t an annoyance.
5. Who is/was the character's best friend? How did they meet?
Rachel. Undeniably Rachel. He is still sad that this one blew up in his face as bad as it did though it is TOTALLY HIS FAULT.
They met in sixth grade, and she totally took the desk he wanted :/ That made him pick on her for half a year until someone else tried it and he went FUCK NO NOT ALLOWED.
…They have been friends ever since.
This was tested twice. The first time was when in ninth grade she became a total junkie and Terry and Alex had to go track her the fuck down in the middle of the night when she ran away.
The second was the day he used his powers on her. She tried to call to apologize and help. Alex tried to call FOR her and after they blew up at each other on the phone well... …he never picked up. Never answered texts or calls or emails or hell, they half broke into his bedroom one night and he went and locked himself in his bathroom so he wouldn’t have to deal with them. :\
If you could get an honest answer about things he regrets? That would be one of them.
SP:
Jinx and Claudio.
Jinx is basically this weird mashup of a best friend/sister/that friend you really aren't sure why they hang around/he's her maid/he's not sure if he loves her or wants to strangle her....and more /'s I am sure.. He would do almost anything for her...but he still wants to smack her up the back of the head CONSTANTLY. She's his longest running close friend in the port and he totally considers her family.
Claudio...Their relationship is a LOT less complicated. They just click on a pretty basic level and enjoy each other's company. They mess with each other, argue like none other, and have a fair amount in common. They spend a ridiculous amount of time together, and would most likely be friends even if things were totally normal and non-powercrazy. Also? Very very awesome fact: Trauma can't sense him. At all.
6. Does he have other close friends? Alex. The third of the trio and arguably more of a brat than Terry. This is the louder more obnoxious third, and he was often the only person Terry could make the offhanded bitchy comments he wants to, to without feeling like a jerk because likely Alex would have already said it and both a lot meaner and a lot more intent to be hurtful than Terry ever really had. Alex was the reason for every damn fist fight he was ever in :/ This amounts to three, once for Rachel’s honor in eighth grade, once to prove a point in the tenth grade, and the third was in the middle of the summer between sophomore and Junior year, that he left with a black eye, an almost broken nose and a really messed up ankle. Alex never lived the third of these down cause Terry did not in fact speak to him for a week :/ He was dragged into all of these and ALEX DIDN’T EVEN PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST. As much as Terry likes the guy, the general face for Alex is this --> :/
In SP he's not really "close" with anyone else, but he kinda likes Jubes and kinda likes Shehulk and my god Edgeworth is helpful even if he is computer illiterate.
7. Does he make friends easily, or does he have trouble getting along with people? It depends. When he clicks with people it’s really easy for him to make friends with them, but if not? Then he sucks at making friends XD
8. Which does he consider more important: family or friends? He would have said family. And he still does when it comes to his brother. So? Really it’s still family, but he’d probably be more likely to count friends he makes as family than say…his dad :/
In SP he actually refers to Jinx and Claudio as 'his family' when it comes to job situations because he keeps having to leave for family emergencies. As far as they know he's got a younger sister who has massive power issues. IF ASKED he probably would shrug this off, but he really does consider that little group a sort of familyish thing. It's weird. ...Okay. Maybe you can lose the 'ish'.
9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has he been married more than once? Single single single. This is actually dated Rachel for a VERY short time in Sophomore year but that never went very far simply because it so threw off the grove of the trio and they just were not fantastic as a couple. He did date some in high school other than that…but recently not so much. :/
10. Is he currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse? Nope…Not really dating at all actually. And he sort of is convinced it just isn’t happening cause of the whole fear thing.
11. Who was his first crush? Who is his latest? I am honestly inclined to say Princess Leia :/ Latest? Eh. Nobody.
12. What does he look for in a romantic partner? Someone who is not terrified of him? Aside from that, he likes to be able to have inside jokes with people, he is not good with the easily offended and he needs somebody who can understand that he is a freaking goober. That last part isn’t actively acknowledged but by the love of god it is needed :/
13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does he relate to them? If no, does he want any? No. Does he want them? …He would eventually and he would regret the hell out of never having them :/
And by having, this can totally mean hijacking someone else's for his own because he's a freaking mother hen apparently....I wish I was kidding, but no. No I am not.
14. Does he have any rivals or enemies? In canon? At the moment nobody is really his friend but Gyrich is pretty close to an actual enemy instead of simply a not friend.
15. What is the character's sexual orientation? Where does he fall on the Kinsey scale? I'd put him at about a 1.5.-2. It takes a lot to get him to talk to people or be FRIENDS with them, so really? I'm not sure this scale applies quite as neatly as I'd like it to, because to me, for him it would be very much a 'I care about this person' suddenly turning into 'Fuck I think I care'. It would probably be not fun for him to have any kind of romantic shit at all, really at this stage. Especially if he had no fucking clue what the other thought. Then there would be a lot of awkward internal babbling, and possibly external babbling. His foot would remain in his mouth for the rest of eternity.
IDK how this turned into early romance issues and Terry Ward, but it did.
16. How does he feel about sex? How important is it to him? He’s a teenage boy. He thinks about it. It would be nifty as hell. Does he think that is currently an option? Not really XDD
17. What are his turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?
I imagine he would really like assertiveness. As I have said many times, that self esteem issue? It’s rather major. And that’s one thing that does show to the opposite. I also would guess that the not naturally being afraid of him thing? That would help a LOT. Also, (probably more on the weird note but idk where else it fits.)Terry's kind of a creeper, in the he people watches constantly way. He'd watch individual people he was with or attracted to and find specifics in the process. It would be very entertaining because it would be really stupid shit, like the way they acted when they were listening to music or a specific facial expression. Turn offs? Well, lets just say er….I can’t imagine something that would actually be worse then somebody either being freaked like crazy or too into the fear power thing :/ Too into the powers thing would actually be SUCH an instant problem YOU HAVE NO IDEA OH GOD. That is the WORST THING YOU COULD DO EVER. He can understand being afraid of him. He can't understand someone liking that. He can understand liking power, but HIS power SPECIFICALLY in any sexual aspect would FREAK HIM THE FUCK OUT. Like, total insta freak out. Basically "Hi, you have to go extract him from hiding in the bathroom or closet or get him off the ceiling" level of freak out....I'm not sure if that extends to 'he turns into someone somebody is in love with and terrified of and he freaks' or if he'd just be very odd around them for a while after. Sex wouldn't happen in that case, I'm just wondering now.....
Also, weird note. Apparently has a thing for pulse points/anywhere you could naturally feel someone's heartbeat. Yeah. The things you find out....
Beliefs
1. Do you know your character's astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does he fit type? I don’t know EITHER. I made up his birthday by going with the release date of the annual....Or close enough and going EH IDEK. So he's a PISCES(!!!!1!!) But…..IDK. And he wouldn't care in the first place so it probably does not matter XD
2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in his life? He used to be mildly religious (Roman Catholic specifically) and now he’s of the opinion that god is out to fuck with people. So he believes but he wants no more of god playing with the ants kthnks. He would actively say if god were a person he'd hate the fucker. (Who has anger issues? >.>;;;;;)
....This might get a little more complicated since Jinx is dating Gabriel/getting to know the angels....but we're....going to see how that goes before I really think it through too much.
3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it? Trauma follows the basic idea of right and wrong, but it’s kinda fluid at this point. He’ll do things as reactions that he would never think was a good idea in normal sane circumstances, and not know how he got there later.
BUT. ULTIMATELY. Trauma's naturally a very good person. ...A very good person who occasionally needs a reality check and to stop acting like a jerkass....but a good person. He also tends to fuck up AMAZINGLY when emotions are involved. But my god, if he doesn't try...and my god, if he doesn't have the most stable moral compass of his little....collective...group...family...thing.....
....Yeah. No. I find it a little scary too that the half demon has a better moral compass than the rest of the crazies..but what can ya do?
4. How does he regard beliefs that differ from his? Is he tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent? He’s a little curious, but really it’s live and let live and he doesn’t care as long as you leave him the fuck alone when he wants you to.
5. What prejudices does he hold? Are they irrational or does he have a good reason for them? The holier than thou super hero types bug the fuck out of him. Does he have anything against the hero types? No. Does the holier than thou part get him? YES. The stereotypical jerkass asshole you run into in highschool? Yeah. Trauma hates that. He is also really really not fond of bureaucrats in any form (He'll tolerate people on an individual basis, but as a whole he hates them). Fuck them, fuck Gyrich, and fuck the horse he rode in on.
Daily Life
1. What is the character's financial situation? Is he rich, poor, comfortable, in debt? He’s stable. He was never crazy well off, but he was always comfortable. Now he’s just consistent and able to live fine. And that’s cool with him. In Sp he's....well...he lives fine?
2. What is his social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected him? He was solidly middle class and then dropped a bit, but he’s fine where money’s concerned. It’s not like he ever spent a crazy amount of money.
3. Where does he live? House, apartment, trailer? Is his home his castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does he share it with others? Dorms at Hammond in Canon, technically still has a bedroom back home but there isn’t much of a chance of him using it any time soon.
In SP he currently lives in a 8th floor apartment with Jinx and Claudio. He's liking life a lot more since elevator access. It's comfortable and he shares a room with Claudio. The biggest mess is the fridge. He's utterly okay with this.
4. Besides the basic necessities, what does he spend his money on?
Trauma spends a lot of his money on random books he picks up and think looks interesting.
Also food. Trauma eats a lot at RANDOM and so therefore likes to have pocket money to grab whatever sounds good at two am.
Music. He likes music. He collects cds/cassettes (he bought an old cassette player at a thrift store) like most kids collect Pokemon cards. (He still has a ton of those somewhere btw…) ANYWAY.
5. What does he do for a living? Is he good at it? Does he enjoy it, or would he rather be doing something else? He’s a superhero in training. And whether he’s good at it or not is up for debate. He would rather be doing something else but it’s safest.
In game he works on the night watch at an office building. There's only a few night workers, so he's A-O-FREAKING AWESOME. ....But he still wants them to go away :| Hates the current boss, spends most of his time making paper airplanes out of memos.
6. What are his interests or hobbies? How does he spend his free time? Trauma used to have the basic hang out, eat a shit ton of junk food and play video games thing going for him at all hours. That then became that he read a lot, played only about half as many video games as before, trolled around the internet (literally, occasionally he’d get bored and just troll people), listened to a lot of music.
He got REALLY good at World of Warcraft :/ And probably watched more tv from a beanbag chair than should ever be healthy.
Now he tends to read a LOT, practice the damn guitar, hangs out with Dio and Jinx, and watches a lot of crap TV.
7. What are his eating habits? Does he skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods? Trauma has a bad habit of snacking so much he doesn’t eat dinner. And he prefers eating at really odd hours. Like….3 am kind of odd. He isn’t fond of most vegetables at all, but if you can dip it in ranch everything is a okay. Steamed or cooked he will only eat if it’s in a sauce or something. Except mushrooms. He really really REALLY likes mushrooms. And Radishes surprisingly. Other than that he’s pretty laid back where food is concerned. And if it has cheese or hot sauce he will eat it no question.
If you hand him potato chips, ranch, and about three energy drinks you may in fact get a decent conversation out of him.
He's gotten better about making himself eat regularly due to making the other two eat something....amazing how that goes.
Associations
Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is his favorite:
1. Color? Red.
2. Smell? cinnamon , grass, the smell of most energy drinks, ozone, sharpie.
3. Time of day? 2 am
4. Season? Summer
5. Book? The Thrawn Trilogy. Specifically Dark Force Rising.
6. Music? Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Nirvana, has a sad sad love of random Linkin Park songs he wont admit to, Led Zeppelin. AC/DC, system of a down, the Misfits, the Rolling Stones, the Clash (I would put Coheed down, but that would turn into Lol worthiness because LOL CLAUDIO) Skipnot, Chevelle, Pink Floyd, White Stripes, The Ataris, Marlyn Manson, Eels, NIN, REM....ETC. (A lot of songs I ASSOCIATE with Trauma are from Brand New or the Ataris or the Eels. And Lies from Evanescence. That one's horrifying to think about but parts of it basically are what he thinks about himself on occasion.)
7. Place? Under this bridge across from school that was actually on some old guy’s property but the Trio snuck in for lunch everyday anyway
8. Substance? Caffeine
9. Plant? He likes trees. :| but that’s more cause you can climb up in them and be much taller than little brothers who want your attention when you’re trying to read.
10. Animal? Hawks
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