Post by maxwell oscar granger on Dec 18, 2013 14:45:39 GMT -5
MAXWELL OSCAR GRANGER
FULL NAME: Maxwell Oscar Granger.
NICKNAMES: Max, Maxxy, Mog.
AGE: twenty-three.
SEXUALITY: straight.
STATUS: single
GROUP: citizen
GRADE: N/A
MAJOR: N/A
JOB OCCUPATION: Manny.
HAIR: blonde, kept quite short and usually styled with wax. He keeps it pretty simple, sometimes growing it out a bit, just to shake things up from time to time
EYES: blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: Only the typical ones from childhood
TATTOOS: He has the eye of Horus tattooed on his right shoulder.
PIERCINGS: None
PLAY-BY: Hunter Parrish!
LIKES: children, open mic nights, acoustic sets, singing, medium sized dogs, hair wax, the park, visiting his parents, funfairs, roller coasters, football, flirting, apples, country music, dance music, night clubs, working, being outdoors, boots, hiking, make-believe, beer, the summer months, clean bathrooms, zombie movies, women wearing turquoise, bottled water, photographs, Egypt, woodwork, goofing off from time to time, pizza, lemonade, plain t-shirts, Diesel, horror novels, weekends, DIY, Thai food, travelling, over the top things, blondes, dirty jokes, bears, fishing, lifting weights, making chocolate cake, hard work, bad late night TV.
DISLIKES: nuts (he’s allergic), moths, sick kids, girls with too much fake on, girls who wear too much pink, tall women, TOMS, movie remakes, opera, moving around too much, getting mocked for his job, snow, being too cold, fish, reality TV, TV soaps, his shirts getting spit up on, melted ice cream, preaching, drugs, wet towels, bathroom hoggers, handbag dogs, umbrellas, fruity cocktails, collapsing deck chairs, sand in his eyes, wearing his glasses, bad hair days, getting slapped, violence of any kind, the colour orange, infomercials that drag on, social networking site games, Hugh Jackman.
FEARS: never having a family of his own, losing his sight, his allergy to nuts
SECRETS: He has a son in Australia which was the result of an affair with a married woman. Max doesn’t see him as her husband believes the kid to be his. This is why Max came back to New York and why he changed his dreams to look after children, so that he can get over the grief of “losing” his own son.
PERSONALITY: Max is very patient; a trait that makes him great with kids. He has a calm temperament and it takes a lot to get him to the point of screaming or yelling at another person. He’s also very flirtatious, sometimes not even realising that he’s doing it at the most inappropriate of moments! He’s a charmer though who doesn’t mean any harm to anyone by it. Max can be a playful kind of guy in every way, whether it’s entertaining the kids he minds or just when he’s hanging out with friends. He is prone to a moment or two of impulsive behaviour and it doesn’t always pay off for him, but he thinks it’s worth taking the risk sometimes as the rewards can outweigh the consequences. Max is surprisingly well educated but doesn’t boast his intelligence or his knowledge to those around him, although he does enjoy the occasional topical debate. His rebellious stage got out of his system during his final high school and college years, so now he’s much more sensible until he’s had a few beers in him and then his judgement can slip, but he keeps the alcohol for when he’s not needed to play manny. He longs to be a family man but that opportunity has slipped him by right now, so he’s trying to find ways to make up for it. When it comes to love he used to chase every and all girls, pretty much, but now he’s playing it safe looking for someone who may not be his perfect match, but who’s a safe bet for him. He can be regretful and when he’s feeling sad can spend hours wallowing in his own misery, but if he’s very tight-lipped and rarely spills his own problems or worries to the people around him. Max has a knack for given out good advice, using his own bad mistakes to pull experience from. He will happily be a shoulder to cry on and listen to someone else moan or bitch about their problems, but don’t expect him to talk back without litres of liquor and a really bad day.
MOTHER: Julie Francesca Granger, 50...
FATHER: Garrett Lionel Granger, 52
SIBLINGS: N/A
OTHERS: Iris Simpson, 29, the mother of his kid.
Xavier James Simpson, 3 months old, his bio son.
PETS: N/A.
HOMETOWN: Technically, Cairo in Egypt, but he’s moved around the globe for as long as he can remember.
HISTORY: Julie and Garrett were both born in Chicago and met during their college years, fell in love and married not long after they had graduated. Garrett worked for a global company as an assessor of sorts, but Max never quite understood his father’s job and grew tired of asking as he got older, but what it did mean was that the small family spent a lot of time globetrotting as Garrett moved from location to location to keep improving the company he dedicated most of his life to. Julie didn’t mind and as a qualified teacher found herself able to give her first and only child a more than adequate education at home, rather than continually ripping him out of schools. At the time Julie discovered she was pregnant, they were living in Prague, but the quick hop to Cairo meant that she lived out her pregnancy there and gave birth to Maxwell under the burning sun of the Egyptian climate. They lived there until Max was three, when they then moved to Norway, following Garrett’s work again.
Max never went to school during his childhood but for seven hours a day would sit with his mother learning the basic subjects and a number of languages that were fitted to the locations they might find themselves moving to next. Julie felt it always best to keep him prepared to make the transition easier and by the age of ten he was fluent in more languages than most. They often stayed one to three years in each place, depending on the age of the company branch and the amount of work Garrett had to complete in each place. Max didn’t mind, it was all he knew by the way of life, but he did grow lonely and the kids he would play with on the streets were never going to be permanent friends as childhood could be fickle and he wasn’t ever going to be in one place for too long. By the age of twelve, Max had lived in five countries; Egypt, Norway, England, Japan and Ukraine.
He was thirteen, still being home schooled and just on the cusp of those dreadful teenage years when the family uprooted for a sixth time in his life and found themselves in Greece. When he was older he realised how lucky he was to live this sort of life, experience the world first hand as a citizen of each country and not as a tourist with two weeks to cram it all in. Just before his fifteenth birthday, his dad came home with great news. A new company expansion and chance for promotion would see the family going stateside, this time on a more permanent basis. The Granger’s found themselves in a nice spacious home in Seattle and with the promise of a place to call a home, Julie finally made the choice to enrol her son in high school. She could have continued teaching him at home, but she felt that he should get to experience a few things for himself, make friends who might not fade away with a postcard and empty promises.
It took Max a while to adjust and his freshman year was a blur of mistakes, being out-casted and generally trying to come to grips with American culture since it was another to add to his collection. He met a few good people though, including Ayden and Caleb. His friends help him find a place in this strange place and Seattle was his home for the longest time of all the places he had ever lived. Finally attending a school, he began to grow tempted by a lot of things, especially girls and his flirty personality quickly emerged and the nature of a charmer came naturally to the multi-lingual kid who seemed to have seen everything. He made good grades, a little more advanced than most of his class thanks to his years of home schooling having a more detailed curriculum. He did get in trouble from time to time for silly things that most teenagers at least experimented with, but generally he was a good kid with just a few lapses in judgement from time to time.
Max was in his senior year when Garrett told him that the family would be relocating before Max reached college, so he should consider a wider variety of choices. His dad needed to take over a department in Melbourne, Australia so Max completely disregarded American colleges and applied to the Australian ones instead. He wound up accepting a place in Sydney and after saying goodbye to everyone at prom, he packed up and moved on out again.
This time though, he kept in touch with the people he considered to be his friends and most of them still spoke to him via e-mails and web cams when the time zones happened to allow for such a thing. On his own for really the first time in the student dorms, Max did rebel a little more. At college he studied Law and Social Sciences, but partied a lot, did a few things he wasn’t so proud of, found himself in handcuffs for streaking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was ridiculous stuff that seemed to stereotypical of college students. He met Iris in one of his classes. She was a married woman who had put her education on hold to move with her husband who was her high school sweetheart. Like Max she had moved about a bit at first, but once they had agreed to settle in Sydney and start up a family, she finally allowed herself to enrol at university. They hung out a lot since Max understood what it was like to uproot so often. Eventually, he began to fall for her and her him, since her husband seemed more invested in his job than her, but it landed them on a treacherous path of secrets and hotel liaisons. Max thought he had every guys’ dream; an older woman, an illicit affair and still the chance to go out most nights and have a good time with his friends. It was at the start of their senior year that Iris was horrified to discover that she was pregnant. She worked out that it had to be Max’s because of the dates and the situation, but it was also the wakeup call she needed. After her husband found the pregnancy test, he was overjoyed, not thinking for a second that it might be anyone else’s, but the moment he found the test was the day Iris had told Max.
She explained that they’d have to work something out, but once she discovered that her husband knew, she turned on Max and told him that she could have nothing more to do with him. She wanted to make things work with her husband and this baby was her only chance to do that; discovering her infidelity would shatter her life and that of the happy family she wanted to create. Max begged and pleaded, but to no avail. He promised to give her money, to support her, hell he even bought a ring! She ignored him though, told him no and said the only way he would ever get his way would be through a court, but to do that he’d have to admit to everything he had done, like the affair and he couldn’t hurt his own parents like that. Iris gave birth to a little boy named Xavier just before their final exams. She gave Max a photograph of him, but said he’d never be his dad. It was torture.
Max needed to get away from Sydney, from Australia and from everything it meant to him. So, right after graduation, he packed up and made the move back to the States, this time to New York. He knew that Ayden and Caleb lived there and knew all about their exciting last year filled with everything he had dreamt of himself at that time. Still, he thought a busy city, friends and a fresh start would help him out. However, despite having such a great Law degree and the opportunity to start a promising law career, he found himself drawn to his friend’s twins and quickly offered to be their nanny. He had always liked children, but after everything with Iris, he wanted to work with them in the hopes it would dull the own ache in his heart. Iris sent him pictures every month of his son, despite Max asking her not to; it was too painful. So, with his law career either on hold or totally extinguished, he took on this new, very different job. His own parents relocated to Toronto during his move, but they still remain oblivious to their son’s secret, as does everyone else.
For now, he seems content. He loves looking after the twins and getting to hang with his friends as often as he does. He’ll need more eventually, but for now life is simple, it’s good and he finally feels like he has a place to call a home.
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
