OZ, Grant Braxley

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GRANT BRAXLEY OZ

FULL NAME: Grant Braxley Oz
NICKNAMES: None.
AGE: Twenty-four
GENDER: Male
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Senior.
MAJOR: Culinary Arts.
JOB OCCUPATION: Crazy Roots Assistant.

HAIR: Dark brown, short and styled tidily with product each morning. It usually stays pretty neat too, unless someone else musses it up on him.
EYES: Green.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: None of importance.
TATTOOS: Roman Numerals ‘XI’ on his right arm, and a feather on the inside of his left bicep.
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Matthew Lewis!

LIKES: The colour green, healthy eating, vegetable smoothies, designer scruff, working out, selfies (he’s such a poser), calls to his mom, peach cobbler, Die Hard movies, natural looking girls, an adventure, The Jungle Book, milk, ginger cats, sports bars, rainstorms, oat and raisin cookies, casino trips, surfing, kayaking, lemon water.
DISLIKES: girls with too much make up on, eating lots of take out, orange soda, his mom being upset, cinema dates, smelly shoes, autocorrect, blocked sinuses, sitting on his sunglasses, television repeats several times in the same week, cockroaches, chick flicks, sweaty hands, muttering, sports injuries, sitting on wet grass.
FEARS: cockroaches, losing his mom or grandpa, Furbies.
SECRETS: Grant gives himself a pep talk in the bathroom mirror each morning when he wakes up to psych himself up for the day ahead.
PERSONALITY: Grant is a confident and friendly guy who will talk and make pals with just about anyone he meets. He’s a health buff and a fitness freak, but not the type who will lord it over someone or preach to another about their lifestyle; he does it because he likes it and it benefits him. He’s a flirt, and it usually gets him into trouble more often than not, too. He’s a guy who is always feeling adventurous and spontaneous which again contributes to the many reasons why he often finds himself in trouble. He’s sociable, and makes a great friend. Grant is protective of the ones he loves most, and he’ll walk to the ends of the earth for those who he considers himself loyal to. He’s not one to start a fight, but for the right reasons he’ll finish one. Those reasons are usually standing up for the people he cares about, and the things he considers the most important in the world. When it comes to love, Grant can be the possessive type. He’s not overly so, but he does like to make it clear that someone is his girlfriend, and he’ll be proud of that fact. He’s not conventionally romantic, but he tries to do little surprises and be interesting in date nights. All of his dating advice comes from his mother, which might not make it the greatest, but he’ll still give it a try.

MOTHER: Samantha Riley Oz, 42.
FATHER: Clarke Andrew Randall, 43.
SIBLINGS: N/A.
OTHERS: Norbert “Bertie” James Oz, 68, Grandpa.
PETS: Redd, A ginger tabby of two.
HOMETOWN: Columbus, Ohio.
HISTORY: Samantha thought she had love at sixteen with the star of the football team. He promised her the world and all the stars in the sky above them. At least, that was what Clarke said right up until Samantha showed up at his door one night in tears to tell him that she was pregnant. She might as well have told him she was a bomb about to explode the way he leapt back and never touched her again. Neither of them were ready to be parents when they were still kids, but Samantha rose to the challenge with grace and maturity, and a father of her own who was on hand to show her the ropes. Her own mother had passed away a few years earlier, but Grandpa Bertie was a grumpy bastard who doted on his grandson when he was born and gave Clarke a graduation present of a good beating to teach him a lesson. Not that it made Clarke interested in his son, or the mother of his child again. No, he had a football scholarship and a college education, while Samantha had diapers and 3am feeds.

Grant was raised pretty well, all things considered. Samantha eventually went to a local college to study administration, and Bertie looked after Grant while she was in class. He worked for himself anyway, so it was easy to work around timetables and schedules. Grant was always close to his mom, who was more like a friend than a mother when he was growing up. Bertie would tell her about the need to discipline a child, but she would make excuses or allowances for Grant. It often meant that he would be sat in the school office being reprimanded for something he hadn’t understood, or some parent would be telling Samantha about something that Grant did that they couldn’t believe she let him get away with. It was tiresome, but she never changed her parenting ways with him.

In high school, he made it worse by choosing to date the principle’s daughter. The man loathed the idea to begin with, but the matter was made worse when he caught them in bed together one afternoon after school. Samantha immediately transferred Grant to a different school in the area and asked him to find a girl whose dad wouldn’t kill him if he slept with her. She also asked him not to get anyone pregnant, because he knew first-hand how that story ended. Grant adored his mother, and still continued to see her as more of a friend than a parent. He wasn’t ashamed to go shopping with her or grab lunch when she had an hour to spare from work. They were close and she was the one he turned to when he needed help or advice about something. She helped him choose colleges and pick out the best schools and courses. Grant had been interested into health and sport since he was fourteen, but for some reason he chose to major in Culinary Arts, citing the reason that he could probably get more people to listen to him there than if he just hung about the gym in a vest all day. He had pretty solid grades despite constantly being in trouble for talking in class or trying to be a wise guy.

The only reason Grant didn’t go to college straight away was because he didn’t want to be sponging of his mom and grandpa when he was in another state. He took a full time job at a grocery store and saved every penny for two years before he moved to New York for school. When people brought it up while he was still in Ohio he simply told them there was no rush to head off to college, but he was very much determined to go there one day. And he did. He packed up at twenty and moved to NYU, finding an apartment just a few blocks from the campus where he still lives now. He works for a crazy boss at Crazy Roots, but he loves it there, and he’s close to graduating now. It’s been hard work getting here with college, but he’s excited for the future and totally terrified about what might be around the corner. But it’s the good kind of terrified, y’know.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In my bag when I cleaned it out.
SAMPLE:

GLITTER AND UNICORNS!

[kim]