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RHETT PARKER FINCH
FULL NAME: Rhett Parker Finch.
NICKNAMES: N/A.
AGE: twenty-three.
SEXUALITY: straight.
STATUS: single
GROUP: student
GRADE: junior
MAJOR: engineering
JOB OCCUPATION: Tribeca vendor.
HAIR: Dark brown, short and usually styled with a bit of wax, but these days he keeps it looking pretty neat..
EYES: blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: None he can remember the tales behind.
TATTOOS: Phoenix tattoo in the centre of his upper back.
PIERCINGS: N/A..
PLAY-BY: Brant Daugherty!
LIKES: mechanical engineering, frittatas, action movies, keeping busy, snow cones, sobriety, soccer, strong coffee, chocolate covered honeycomb, gym atmosphere, flirting, dancing, dates, dirt bikes, leather jackets, the beach, the Police Academy movies, college, scarves, shopping, pine scent, hair wax, comical mugs...
DISLIKES: hospitals, moths, his allergy to blueberries, temptation, drugs, the fact that he’s relapsed once, being lectured, family gatherings, drama, reality TV, feeling cold, psychiatrists, birds, feeling grimy, plain cheese pizzas, being distracted when he’s trying to work, the smell of damp, bad dates, wearing a suit.
FEARS: another relapse, someone he cares about ending up down the same path he did, birds.
SECRETS: He doesn’t talk much about any of his past problems, especially not the fact that he’s relapsed once already. He also has a soft spot for Disney Movies, but doesn’t actually tell anyone about that at all..
PERSONALITY: Rhett is predominantly secretive. He rarely talks about his past or himself other than to answer basic questions. Everything else he tends to keep pretty vague because he’s scared people will leave him or judge him for the things he’s done. Friendly, Rhett looks out for those who he considers his friends and is loyal enough to take care of them when things are rough. He remembers wishing he had good friends when he was at his lowest point and doesn’t want anyone else to be in his situation. For the same reasons he can be pretty protective of those he cares about, not wanting to see them get hurt. He’s a active guy, playing soccer for the college team and having several hobbies to keep his mind occupied when he’s not working. He likes to have fun just as much as anyone else and doesn’t see why sobriety should stop something like that. He dislikes being around overly drunk people or drugs, but he can handle a few hours at a party or in a club with friends. Flirtatious, Rhett knows how to work the charm and flash a smile and it’s often how he finds his distraction in places where temptation is all around him. He does have a short temper and can jump the gun at times, but he’s usually just explosive than setting out to actually hurt people with his words or actions, in fact, it’s rare he turns physically violent. He’s defensive sometimes overly so and realises a little too late that he’s putting up those walls again. Insecure when he really likes a girl, Rhett is fine with the playful side of romance, but when it gets serious he feels like he’s not good enough and often starts distancing himself so he doesn’t get hurt when the girl he likes finds out about his past, which he knows he can’t always ignore.
MOTHER: Olivia Chloe Finch, 48.
FATHER: Sean Brendon Walcott, 52.
SIBLINGS: James Kevin Finch, 15 – Half-brother.
Billy Leon Finch, 12 – half-brother.
OTHERS: Mason Victor Finch, 51, step-father.
PETS: Tank of tropical fish, but he hasn’t named any of them.
HOMETOWN: New Orleans, Louisiana.
HISTORY: Olivia met Sean at a bar one night and a short lived fling came from their not-so-subtle flirtation and several drinks too many. She thought nothing of it and had almost forgotten about the man himself by the time that she started getting the pains. It woke her up in the night, but she put it down to unhealthy eating since she had lived off of takeout for over a week straight. It was only when she was in work the next day and could barely stand to serve the customers that her boss called for an ambulance. The moment the paramedics mentioned that she was in labour, Olivia insisted that they were wrong, that she wasn’t pregnant. There had been no signs and she had only gained a few pounds and gone up one dress size over the course of the pregnancy. She kept insisting that they had made a mistake, that this was something else, but before she knew it there was the wail of a baby and the little boy was placed in the stunned mother’s arms. The doctors believed that Rhett had arrived a little earlier than he ought to, but he was a healthy baby who was a only little on the small side. Everyone in Olivia’s life was as shocked as she was about the new arrival, but the moment Olivia looked into those wide eyes she knew that she was going to do everything that she could to make this baby happy.
She tried to get in touch with Sean for years, even scouted out the bars she recalled him hanging out in, but to no avail. There were rumours that he had left the city altogether for a job in Texas. Olivia kept trying, believing that both father and son had a right to meet. She only stopped trying when Rhett was six and she met Mason; the love of her life. Mason didn’t mind that Rhett had a different dad and he taught the little boy how to play soccer and took him to the cinema whenever he could. They had a true bond and Rhett was happy when Olivia agreed to marry Mason. It was a whirlwind romance of sorts, but no one had ever seen the trio happier than when they were together and the happy couple were blessed to find each other. It was a good life to have and when Rhett was seven, his mom announced her pregnancy. That was when everything began to change for the little boy who had thought they were perfectly happy just the way they were. He was too young to understand that Olivia and James might want more children, that Mason might want a son or daughter of his own flesh and blood. Rhett took Mason’s name after the marriage, but Mason never officially adopted the little boy. Olivia had been uncomfortable in a way because she didn’t want Rhett to one day meet his biological father and have trouble with that situation. She had given up finding Sean now, but she couldn’t stop her son from looking when he was older and more prepared for a meeting, if one should ever occur.
James came along and Rhett went through what everyone thought was typical sibling jealousy. He had been an only child for so long that he got all of the attention and now it was something he had to share with someone who needed it more than he did, at times. Rhett didn’t see it like that, though. He was old enough when Olivia met Mason to understand that the man was not his father and Rhett never called Mason as such, so now he believed that he wasn’t wanted anymore. This was how the trouble began with Rhett. He would act out, breaking things and doing what he could to get the attention from Olivia. He began to dislike Mason and would ignore the man whenever he tried to be nice, reject his offers and generally act like a petulant child. They thought it was something he would grow out of once he got used to everything, but it got worse when Olivia found out that she was pregnant again.
Mason was overjoyed when Billy was born. He now had two sons of his own and Rhett. However, Rhett was eleven by this point and only ever saw Mason speaking about his two biological sons. It wasn’t intentional; people asked more about the younger two than Rhett because Rhett was older and had less news. Sadly, Olivia and Mason didn’t really deal with the situations too well. If Rhett caught James or Billy with something of his he’d yell and kick up a fuss which only caused his mom to yell. It also didn’t help that Mason referred to the children as “the boys and Rhett” which Rhett took as excluding him from the family, when Mason was actually trying to make Rhett feel more like a grown up. He wasn’t a little boy anymore, was how Mason saw it, but a pre-teen with frustrations didn’t listen to reason.
It only got worse. At school Rhett got into fights with his peers and answered back to his teachers. They tried everything to try and get him to behave but it had very little of an effect on the stubborn minded young man. He smoked, drank and stayed out until all hours. Olivia and Mason were practically unable to control him and their attentions were divided between trying to reel Rhett in and trying to protect their two other sons from their older brother’s influence. Rhett was fourteen when he started dabbling with drugs and the wrong crowds. There were one or two incidents with the police, minor offences, and Rhett had essentially just lost all sense for a while. He cut classes, turned up to dinner drunk or high and just spiralled dangerously out of control. Anyone could see that there was something wrong with him and while no one actually meant to push his buttons, the drug abuse made him believe that they did. He was sixteen when he faced his first stint in rehab. He had accidentally overdosed in his bedroom and Mason found him when he didn’t come down for dinner when called. Olivia, doing what she declared she should have done months ago, had her son sent to rehab and on one of the intense programmes for minors. She wasn’t going to lose her firstborn, especially not to his own stupidity.
The clinic did turn him around and help him to see what he really did have in his life. The family finally confronted the issues they didn’t realise that they had and Rhett made some life choices for his future. He wanted to go to college and study engineering and he wanted to track down his biological father. He meant no offence to Mason, but he had always wondered about the man he looked so much like and Olivia agreed that the two men ought to meet. Sean never knew that he had a son and while she had done her best all those years ago, she wondered if maybe she ought to have kept trying after she met Mason; could it have helped Rhett sooner? While in rehab, Rhett kept up with school work and remained in the clinic beyond the end of his sophomore year.
When he returned to school for his junior year, people were surprised. He no longer looked like the boy he had been before and he actually made an effort in class. Teachers expected smart-ass comments from him, not actual answers! He tried out for the soccer team to comply with the “positive outlet” suggested by his psychiatrist back at the facility. He had to check in every week with him for sessions at the behest of Olivia, but Rhett really did seem to have a handle on his life and junior and senior year passed by with very few incidents. There were one or two fights when someone managed to push the right button for Rhett to explode, but in every other way it was ideal. He made the grades he needed for college, was accepted to school in New York and it seemed like he had a great future.
His attempts to contact Sean were proving difficult, but Rhett didn’t let up, not even when he made the move from New Orleans to the city that never sleeps. He started his engineering course and took his time adapting to college life. Olivia and Mason forked out for a modest apartment away from the dorms and the student residences so he would have an actual escape from the temptation that might come with the parties and the nightlife. Rhett wasn’t too bad with it though. He didn’t tell people about what he had been through, but he could handle two or three hours without feeling anything drawing him in.
It was during his sophomore year, again, that he started to lose control. He managed to make contact with Sean at last and the man was shocked but happy to have a son. He was a travelling businessman and due in New York soon enough, so they made plans to meet in a bar. Rhett had every intention of sticking to his usual harmless drinks, but Sean wanted to share a drink with his son and Rhett didn’t want to have to taint their first meeting by explaining that he was a recovering addict! Eventually he relented and it was like picking at an old wound. One drink turned to two to three…he woke up the next morning feeling awful, and not just because of the hangover. After that it just seemed like the universe was out to get him. Sean kept in touch by phone, but Rhett still felt pressured to be some great son to him, despite only knowing the man for a few months. The stress of school was really getting to him, too. He loved his course, but he had fallen behind in work when he had been struck down with a really bad chest infection and he was struggling to make it up. Toss in there a fight with his mom over coming home for break and Rhett was back staring into a dark abyss. He felt ashamed of himself the first time he knew he had broken his sobriety, so the second felt even worse and the best way to forget seemed to make it a third time. Before he knew it, he was stuck in his old ways and no one in the city was there to help him out of it. Rhett dropped out of college and was fired from the job he had at a grocery store. He blacked out, missing days and only leaving his apartment to find some kind of fix. When things were beyond control, he called home one night and left a message, sobbing and delirious. The moment they heard it Mason was getting his keys and preparing to drive to New York to help Rhett, insisting that Olivia stay with their boys and make sure they were okay and oblivious to what was happening until they knew how bad it was.
Mason arrived at Rhett’s apartment and found his step-son inside and passed out. The place was a mess and Rhett looked worse than ever. This spiral had been happening for a solid few months before he had let on to his family with the message on the machine and it broke Mason’s heart to see Rhett had fallen so fall after working so hard the first time. Rhett’s first clear thought came two weeks later in rehab back in Louisiana. He was disappointed in himself and ashamed of screwing things up so much. This time it was a much longer recovery. He wanted to feel mentally stronger, knowing that life was going to be stressful and that he needed to have better options than just falling into old, bad habits. Putting his college education on hold for the time being, Rhett wanted to focus on getting himself completely better. He told Sean the whole truth and the man wasn’t disgusted like Rhett thought he would be; he was hurt that his son had gone through that and that he hadn’t been there to help. Rhett didn’t blame him, and neither did anyone else. One thing this relapse did allow Rhett to understand though was just how much he owed to Mason. It had been Mason who had found him after his overdose and it had been Mason who had rushed to New York and found Rhett close to a second overdose. Without him, who knows what might have happened? Rhett even told this to Mason who just shook his head and explained that it didn’t matter about blood, Rhett was one of his boys and he would do anything for him.
Rhett remained at the facility for several months and then returned to the family home for a little while. He wanted to return to New York to prove a point that he could do it, but this time had a better system in place, making sure to arrange himself some assistance at the university and at a local facility that would help Rhett if he ever felt himself slipping again. The university, very understanding, allowed Rhett to pick up from his sophomore year, rather than starting all over again. He made it through the year relatively unscathed. He had a panic at the point where everything had gone wrong the previous year, but luckily nothing actually happened this time and his safety nets did the job he needed them too. It rolled right on by and Rhett was back on his feet like he hoped to be.
Preparing for his junior year, Rhett still seeks help when he needs it and has those precautions in place. He’s terrified of relapsing again and wants to stay clean for good this time, but he knows it’ll always be a tough road. He just hopes he can build a better life to make up for the mistakes of his past and hopefully find some people to share it with!
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
