Post by I'm with stupid--> on Mar 14, 2012 17:27:53 GMT -5
Full Name: Ray River
Gender: Male
Age: 23, 4/20
Appearance:
River is about 5.9 foot tall, making him very easy to spot in crowds. River is very in shape, mainly from being very active and outside a lot. River has smooth fair skin, but his hands are somewhat rough. This is from doing odd jobs and just using his hands a lot in general. River’s face is often shown with a smug and cocky smile. Often oozing out with confidence about himself. Despite his slightly receding hair line, he likes to keep a spiked up hair style, something that he always personally finds very stylish along with sideburns on both sides of his head. This is normally done through the aid of cheap hair gel that you can get in any normal market or local store.
His eyebrows are an average width apart from each other, but oddly enough, his thin eyebrows somehow connect to the hair on his head. River also has hazel brown eyes that are barely noticeable. However, when he's traveling he likes to wear special designer sunglasses with black lenses. Unlike normal sun glasses which have two bars, these have four on them which sort of cross together on each side. These sun glasses were given to him by his late older brother.
Since the crossed bars go upwards and slide into his hair, they help stay on even if he's running at a fast pace. River normally wears a stylish short sleeved shirt. This shirt is black and has gold color strains in the middle of it that goes up to his chest. The upper part of the shirt is always left open and reveals a little of his chest. However, this shirt can be buttoned up so in case he needs to trap some heat and keep warm. This shirt is tucked into his pants and over it is a jacket with a black dragon design.
Having fuzz around the edges of it, the jacket is very comfortable and can keep him warm in chilly areas. However, it is not warm enough to be used in the dead of winter. Inside the jacket is some straps to hold Pokeballs and a small pocket to put his sunglasses up when he needs to take them off. Finally, River has a pair of normal slack jeans that have standard pockets around the side and back, with a belt around his waist to keep them up and finally a pair of long black boots.
Background:
You want to know my stupid history? It not all that great or important, but fine I guess I could tell you a little about myself. I grew up in Verona City and in the ghettos. In many ways you could call that area I’m from pretty interesting in many ways. You can meet interesting people and it keeps you alert, forcing you to protect you trash, unless of course you want it stolen. As someone who had grown up there, I would call it a crappy place littered with crappy people. As they say, it’s not about being in the ghetto, but about getting out.
I’ve never seen my real dead beat parents and the only person that I had to call family was my older brother. However, I'm not even sure if he was my real blood brother, but that don't matter. He took care of me and helped me survive the ghetto. We used to live in an orphanage for a while, but it was a crap hole to live in. So we ran away and never looked back. I have no regrets about it either to this day. Me and my brother looked after for each other. Well, I should say he looked after me more than I did for him.
I was just some twerp kid who didn't know anything. Any time that I was picked on my older brother would step in and knock some sense into them. We had to steal every day to make it through to the next. We would pick pocket and shop lift at the store for food. You know, just small and petty stuff. The winter’s though man, they were the worst and the hardest time to live homeless. At night when we would finally sleep I could always tell my older brother would be thinking it be better for himself to just ditch me.
Without me around he didn't have to split anything like, water, food and money. I couldn't blame or hold it against him if he did. However, he would never leave me behind. What could I say about a guy like that? I have massive respect for him and loved my older brother. However, one day he caught some kind of illness and didn't recover from it. The day he died, I remember being sober and shaking uncontrollably. Of course, I got no pity from any one though.
Who would care about some kind of snot nosed kid that is homeless? At first I was scared and went hungry for a few days. Being alone and without my brother, I didn't know what to do about it. However, I started to think about myself and what to do with my life. I wanted to be stronger and to be able to do something with myself. So I wouldn't end up like him and just die with no one to care. So, one day I had gotten myself purposely caught by the police, all so that they would be forced to deal with me and I could get a chance at living for once.
They forced me to go to school and learn about the world and Pokémon. Pokémon always caught my interest in those boring school classes, though more so the trainers who would be traveling around the world with them. Even if they didn't have a place to sleep too they would keep moving ahead and make something of themselves. So I decided while in school to become a Pokémon trainer. However, before I set out I figured it be best to invest in myself a little in my appearance. So I took on as many jobs as possible until I was able to afford these stylish clothes. Trust me, that took a long time to do.
Not only having to pay rent for my own place, but these expensive clothes too. Well that’s about all there is to me and my boring life. I hope you're happy that I opened up for you because I’m not. Its old wounds and a life I hated, now get lost so I can get some Pokémon and gain some power to make myself even better.
Personality:
River is a very confident person about himself, but this is just a decoy. On the outside he is shown to be very confident and brave. A person that is cold, ruthless, and rude. However, in reality he lacks self-confidence and is not all that brave at all. In fact he's scared to end up like he was when he was growing up. On the outside, he will talk big and brag a lot about his abilities like he was already a Pokémon champion. However, in reality he’s just scared that someone will actually see what’s going on underneath and he will lose his cool. Afraid that someone might know what he really is.
He likes to act brave by stepping forwards to do something, which would be considered to most as being brave and reckless. This is not the full truth however. He will in fact always choose the safest path to do things and only makes it appear like he is doing it to be brave and reckless. He is afraid to take any big risks or actions. In fact, going out to be a trainer is the closest thing he has ever done than he himself would consider as brave. The way he talks down on people is also just a decoy. Only by doing this is he protecting himself.
He doesn't like the idea of letting people in and getting attached to them, only for something like what happened to his brother happen again. He is afraid of letting people and Pokémon get that close to him to the point that if they ever for whatever reason left him, he would feel weak and scared. Unable to do anything again, but watch them go. He only considers someone who doesn’t try to get too close with him as his true friend, proof of his deep fear of not wanting to get hurt again.
River is very aggressive about anything that’s personal about him and that he doesn’t want to talk about. He will snap at them for it or he will quickly change the subject. River can be a bit talkative at times and is not afraid to say a long speech with a single breath. There is a little thing that he does not mind so much and that's kids. River finds them easy to talk to than someone of his own age. They are innocent and haven't had it too rough yet. Or at least he hopes not. It is the only time he opens up a little. However, around fellow adults he wouldn't dare show this side of himself.