Brian August Anderson-- (Anderson)

[BRIAN AUGUST ANDERSON--]

GENERAL INFORMATION !
NAME: Brian August Anderson
AGE: Twenty-Seven
SEX: Male
SPECIES: Elemental
ELEMENT: Earth
THREAT LEVEL: Low Threat
FAMILY:
Grace Anderson- 59, Mother, Deceased
Nicholas Anderson- 62, Father, Shop Owner
OCCUPATION: Former Shadow Knight, Unemployed


APPEARANCE !
DESCRIPTION:
[HAIR]
His hair is always a matted mess. Anderson, due to his disability, cannot see his hair and therefore does not care how it looks. He doesn’t really attempt to comb it or take care of it in general. At the moment, it is a muddy brown from abuse and mistreatment. In the day he could see and he took care of his looks, his hair was pale brown, almost blonde in color and was easily tamable with a wet comb. Now, it sticks up in every which direction and will not lie flat no matter how much effort is used. The only thing keeping it from becoming truly wild is Anderson’s dislike for feeling his hair in his face and he often cuts off the longest bits.

[EYES]
Anderson’s eyes used to be bright blue and were often described as the best part of his face. Even though his eyes were constantly covered by glasses which weren’t always clean, people would still notice the nice color. After his run-in with Cecil, that is no longer the case. Due to extreme trauma, the color has faded away and it is hard to tell what color they once were. Two long reddish-brown scars run down each of his eyelids, showing signs of the torture he had received. Due to these marks to his face, Anderson can no longer see. Instead, he relies on his other senses to find his way around.

[BUILD]
Anderson is built similarly to a stick. He has a long body that reaches six feet tall but horizontally, he has almost nothing. Despite his skills in cooking, because of his new disability Anderson has a difficulty making food for himself. It is a rare occasion that he eats a full meal. This has made him frightfully skinny, to the point that if he is wearing a tight shirt, a person could see his ribs. Though, in his day when he had his full senses, Anderson was quite muscular with broad shoulders and was quite proud of his fitness. Since that though, he has lost the ability to truly keep up with his fitness.

[SCARS]
The most prominent scars that Anderson has are the ones that cut across his eyes. On both sides, he has two long marks going horizontally across his eyelids. Since his eyesight was damaged when he received the injuries, Anderson has never seen them for himself but he purposefully avoids touching his own face so he doesn’t touch them. He never wants to know how bad the scars truly are. A second scar that he has is a thick cut across his nose that he received in a fight years ago when he was a teenager. He wears that scar as a medal since he had won the fight he earned it in.

STRIKING FEATURE: The scars on his eyes.


PERSONALITY !
DESCRIPTION:
[ARROGANT]
“Yeah, I’m just that awesome.”
Anderson has enough self-confidence that it spills from his ears. Even when he was a child, his ego has been insufferable. The man thinks highly of himself and rarely ever considers other above him. Instead Anderson likes to believe that he is the greatest thing to touch this earth since sliced bread. And at times, there doesn’t seem to be any way to reason with him. No matter how many insults you throw, no matter how hard you try to destroy him, it won’t work. The insults glance off his bulletproof ego. Though with great confidence, there is always downfall. Especially since the fight and his blinding, Anderson still refuses to get help. He believes that he is too good for someone to be his eyes. Instead he can take care of himself.

[TACTICAL]
“I was playing you like a fiddle.”
Despite his obvious fault of over-confidence, Anderson does have an idea of what he is doing. Manipulating people turned out to be simple once he learned how to do it. A simple glance in one direction, a single word in an expecting ear, he could control whoever he wanted. He knows how to manipulate just about any situation and uses this skill to his advantage. Though his skills have taken a recent downwards turn as he lost the ability to read faces. Facial expressions had been his biggest asset and without sight, he can no longer read them. Slowly he is learning to follow vocal patterns and read people by the tone of their voice.

[FLIRTY]
“Ain’t she a pretty one?”
This is what Anderson does best. He’s a bit cheesy with his methods but his most practiced skill nonetheless. He is not below using fake accents and horrible pick-up lines if it means he gets the girl. Anderson isn’t afraid to result to extreme tactics to manage his goal. Over the years Anderson spent most of his time chasing girls and only basing his affection on sight. Now that he is blind, Anderson is having difficulty finding potential people to flirt with. Similar to his ability to manipulate, he used to base his flirting on what he could observe. He is now reduced to flirting with girls that he can only hear and smell.

[LAZY]
“I’ll do it later.”
Anderson hates working hard. Why do it today when it could be put off until tomorrow? That’s his philosophy. The idea of hard work never appealed to the young man. He would rather be sitting around reading or doing other activities that benefit him than doing something for someone else. That is probably the reason Anderson cannot hold a job. He may be a good cook but no restaurant wants a blind, lazy asshole. Anderson would rather be doing nothing than working for someone else.

[LOYAL]
“No one is being left behind.”
Despite his negative qualities, Anderson is fiercely loyal to those that he is close with. As he is quick to defend himself, he will jump to the defense of one of his friends or family in an instant if needed. Anderson isn’t afraid to join the fray or do something dangerously stupid to get a friend out of trouble. Also, it is a safe bet to say that he will never turn traitor or stab a friend in the back. Once he chooses to be someone’s friend, there is no going back on it.


STRENGTHS:
+ Cooking
+ Persuading others to do things for him
+ Navigating despite being blind
+ Using his Element

WEAKNESSES: (at least three weaknesses)
- Cannot see
- Easily loses his temper
- Often makes poor decisions
- Doesn’t think before leaping
INTERESTS: Cooking, women, coffee, food, and perfecting his element


HISTORY !
DESCRIPTION:
- Born to Grace and Nicholas Anderson, both Earth Elementals. He was their first and only child.
- Attended Blackwood Academy from the time he was five until he was sixteen. His favorite subject was mathematics. His grades were poor at best because he often suspended for getting in fights with other children at school.
- Even as a small child, he was always interested in cooking and demanded to be taught how. Anderson and his mother spent a lot of time in the kitchen.
- Anderson dropped out of school when he was sixteen and worked for four years at his father’s shop.
- After getting into a fight with his father and was fired from the shop, Anderson searched for work elsewhere.
- At age twenty-three, Anderson found out about the Shadow Knights at a local bar. He had heard about them back when he was in school and joined. His reasons for joining them were that he wanted to see what was beyond Blackwood Hallow.
- After two years with the Shadow Knights, Anderson was mostly apart of groups that performed small robberies and assaults of the Guard aimed to cause panic.
- However, Anderson was constantly fighting with another member of the Shadow Knights, a man named Cecil Carpenter. One of their fights boiled down to the point where Cecil attacked Anderson, scarring the other man’s eyes.
- Since then, Anderson left the Shadow Knights because of his injuries and his desire to have nothing to do with the Shadow Knights, after learning their true intentions.
- It’s been a year since he was blinded and leaving the Shadow Knights. Anderson lives in constant fear that they will track him down, so he keeps his mouth shut, often lying when asked what happened to his eyes. Also, to get around, Anderson is often forced to use a cane that was brought in from the outside.

OOC !
NAME: Rose or Sarcastic
EXPERIENCE: Six Years