Post by prettylittlefish on Oct 1, 2014 0:47:54 GMT
Got shackles on, my words are tied
{Fear can make you compromise}
Basics
Name: Riley Aron King
Goes by: Riley
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Thinks he's hetero, probably isn't
Ability: Teleportation, sudden disappearance
Year/Class:
Dorm: Nightshade
With the lights turned up, it's hard to hide
{Sometimes I wanna disappear}
Appearance
Height: 6'0
Weight: 140 lb
Eye color: Gray
Hair color: Dark brown
Body type: Slim, sleek, a little bony around the edges
Clothing style: He usually throws on a tee shirt and jeans. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Raise up to your ability
{Yeah I'm scared but I disappear}
Personality and preferences
Likes: Pranks, candy, scaring girls, parties, sunny days, sleep, pizza
Dislikes: Seriousness, school, headaches, hangovers, authority
Overall personality: Riley is a child in the form of an six-foot man. He never grew up. He lacks maturity on nearly all fronts and absolutely refuses to take himself seriously. Or anyone else, to be honest. Whether or not his ability produced such an exaggerated personality is still yet to be seen. Teleportation allows him to sneak up on just about anyone and scare the living daylights out of them. He's known for appearing in the girl's locker room at whim, teleporting up stairs out of laziness,
and bouncing out of a party at the first sign of trouble. At any rate, his gift has a lot of potential.
He's a good kid. Making people laugh is his livelihood, and if someone's sad, he'll do everything in his ability to work a smile out of them. He loves to smile. If he's not smiling, something's either terribly wrong or he has a headache.
Riley's got a terrible work ethic. He would rather be partying. His grades suffer on all fronts except in math, a subject at which he somehow excels. He's not particularly intelligent. It remains a mystery to this day.
Most people have him pegged as the class clown, the attention seeker, the annoying one. He embraces it. Most of his attention-seeking stems from his rather sub-par childhood.
On the opposite end of the extreme, when Riley gets in a funk, he stays in a funk. He's unable to pull himself out. All is pointless and nothing matters, over and over. He skips school for days on end and the athletic director is forced to hop on his little ATV and find the kid. Let's just say Riley's great at hide and seek.
Fun facts:
-He's named after Riley B. King, the blues legend famously known as B.B. King.
-He hates blues music.
-He shares a middle name with Elvis Presley.
-His parents were obviously big music fans.
-Teleporting too often gives him massive headaches.
-He's convinced trickery is one of his side abilities.
-He's also convinced he's the real-life Peter Pan.
Prankster | ADHD | Goofball | Immature | Confused | Sweet | Party animal | Flirty | Remarkably stupid | Dreamer | Unrealistic | Childish
Running around before it corners you
Family Life and Background
Riley grew up in an extremely gift-intolerant household. This is how it is: his parents are pretty old for a kid his age, and even older for his younger sisters. They're the typical aristocratic, strait-laced snobs who were the least likely to have a kid like Riley. They weren't always this way. In fact, his mom was one of those wild and free hippies back in the day. Life happens. Things change.
Anyway, so his parents basically wanted to kick him out for having this gift. Technically they should have been happy he had something so inconspicuous a gift (pun intended), whereas other kids can breathe fire and shoot lasers out their eyes. The next best thing to kicking him out was ignoring him. What comes to mind is Anna from Frozen?? Bad example but it applies. When they weren't completely ignoring his existence, they were yelling at him to pick up his grades or play a sport or make something out of his sorry life. He grew up feeling very unloved, even though his little sisters cheered him on to the best of their ability. It was easy for them to do. They didn't have gifts. They weren't blatantly ignored. So Riley would disappear for hours on end. His parents didn't know where he was 98-percent of the time. Sometimes they worried, but... he wasn't theirs to worry about anymore. It happens. Life happens.
So, he's an attention-seeker now. He's this little kid who hasn't grown up, who got lost in his Peter Pan-esque fantasies as a kid and hasn't outgrown them. He'll do anything to be in the spotlight, anything to be loved, overcompensating to the extreme because his parents were never there.
I can't go because my life's a wreck
Relationships
Close friends:
Rivals/enemies:
Song: Houdini - Foster the People