ALTMER, Remus Sayer

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REMUS SAYER ALTMER

FULL NAME: Remus Sayer Altmer.
NICKNAMES: None
AGE: Thirty-six
GENDER: Male.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single - divorced.
GROUP: Citizen.
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History, with a specialisation in Torture.

HAIR: Brown and short, but always messy. He actually can’t remember having tidy hair at any point in his life..
EYES: Brown.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: If any.
TATTOOS: He has an ‘O’ on his arm for his son, and then Sanskrit ‘love’ for his daughter on his arm and wrist, respectively.
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Noah Wyle!

LIKES: Europe, castles, dark history, strong tea, being allowed to be messy, black humour, reading the classics, weekends with his kids, Game of Thrones, big dogs, museums, putting his kids to bed, jackets, late night writing, teaching, making his students squirm (just a bit), passionate people, tacos, the night, poetic lines, crypts.
DISLIKES: Breaking bad news, phone addicts, forgetting to go to sleep, awkward silences, overcomplicating matters, demanding women, gossips, parent-teacher conferences, spring hayfever, being in his office when it’s too hot, betrayal, movies that exaggerate facts, egg, moths, throw pillows, strong perfumes.
FEARS: Alien movies, being part of a religious service, losing his children.
SECRETS: When he was a child he suffered from a reoccurring nightmare about falling from a rope bridge while being chased. He still has it from time to time..
PERSONALITY: His dark humour often shows through first, offering people a glance into his even darker personality. Remus is a confident man though, and for those who stick around beyond that first meeting they’ll find out that Remus is a warm hearted soul. He’s laidback and the type who often loses track of time. He’s creative and just a little bit silly for a grown man, but that’s fine when his kids are running wild. He’s kind and patient, but he’s not the type to waste his time on people who are full of BS. He’s through with that kind of drama in his life. He doesn’t consider himself a fighter by any means, but he is a protector. He would give his life for his children, and does everything in how power to keep them safe. His door is always open for friends in need, too. His marriage has left him wary when it comes to love, but he would appreciate having someone else in his life to cherish. He understands, however, that two children is a big commitment for anyone to take on. Still, he’s quite the old-fashioned romantic when the right mood strikes him, and when he’s in the company of the right lady. Of course, getting him to open up that part of his heart again might be a slow process.

MOTHER: Dolores Bernadette Altmer, 66.
FATHER: Bernard Oscar Altmer, 69.
SIBLINGS: Paloma Honey Altmer,- Wright, 32.
Nolan Thor Altmer, 27.
OTHERS: Otto Michael Altmer, 8, son.
Millie Rebecca Altmer, 5, daughter.
Morgan Lilian Redd, 34, ex-wife
PETS: Bruno, Dalmatian of three!
HOMETOWN: Topeka, Kansas.
HISTORY: Dolores and Bernard met through friends, and their slow burn romance eventually led to a small wedding. They were not a couple who made the gossip of their home often, and they had their children in a nice home, comfortable in size for three energetic kids. They were well mannered folk, with well mannered kids, and in all honesty there was a lot of blandness about the family. They didn’t stand out. They sort of just blended in with the background of their neighbourhood. Dolores was a nurse and Bernard was a banker. They went to work, came home, and raised a family. There was never trouble at the house and the children were never hell raisers who tore through the street. Any mischief they got into was taken care of quickly with appropriate punishments and they never did it again.

Remus was the eldest child, and as such he was often left to look after his brother or sister when he was old enough to do so. Not that it required much. They were all content to stay indoors and keep to their own things. Nolan appreciated the TV when their parents weren’t around to scold him about square eyes, and Paloma was always running up a phone bill with her friends. Remus liked to read history books from the local library. He stumbled across medieval history purely by chance one rainy afternoon while waiting for a storm to pass there and it was a world that sucked him right in. He devoured everything he could find on it, and soon enough he became that creepy kid who talked too much about leeches and torture chambers. Teachers whispered to his parents, but he explained that he wanted to go off to college and become a history teacher one day. It was a sensible ambition, and with no fault to be found they could hardly condemn their son for his dreams. Instead they just suggested that perhaps he didn’t chase the girls in his class around with such morbid ideas.

Remus had a pretty quiet childhood. He was a bit of a weird kid, but being harmless and smart kept him away from most of the bullying of his peers. There was always a better target for his classmates and they often took advantage of that. He just kept his head down and got on with things, his goal for his life never really changing.

He left Kansas and went to Arizona for college. He majored in history there. When he was in his junior year he met the woman who he would later marry; Morgan Redd. It was love at first sight on a typical student night out at a party at some local dive. She was beautiful and Remus fell for her in a heartbeat. They married the same summer he completed his Masters in Medieval History and soon after their firstborn arrived. Remus began to teach some undergraduate classed while working on his PhD in Medieval Torture and how they had progressed throughout time since their invention, and in relation to where their inventors came from. He was offered a job teaching fulltime at NYU not long after he completed it, and at the same time as that move happened, their daughter came into the world.

Unfortunately, all of this was very testing for the young couple. Morgan felt like she was underappreciated when Remus came home gushing about his great job and then spent time with the children and left her until last, after they were both asleep. She grew to resent them, a depression setting over her that doctors couldn’t pull her out of with handfuls of pills. One night Remus came home to find a neighbour looking after the children and Morgan simply gone. The divorce papers came several weeks later with an accompanying letter explaining that she couldn’t do it anymore. The marriage was too much, being a mother was too much, and she was through.

It broke him, but Remus stayed strong for Otto and Millie who needed him then more than ever. It was hard being a single father to two wonderful children, but he pushed on through as best he could. Morgan had never left the city, but was in her own place with a friend from work. In time she asked for visitation and was granted one weekend in the month with the children, along with any pre-arranged trips that Remus approved. He wasn’t about to stop the children from seeing their mother, but after she dumped them on a neighbour he didn’t trust her to keep them with such a fragile mental state. She agreed with him, surprisingly. She thought the weekend was enough, and eventually it was the weekend and every Wednesday after school for a few hours while Remus had office hours and faculty meetings at NYU.

It remains that way, and for what it’s worth, it works. Remus loves his kids, and puts them above everything else. After them he loves to teach. That pretty much makes up his life at the moment. Watching Otto and Millie grow up is something he doesn’t think he’ll tire of, but he wishes he could freeze time for those special moments, just to keep them to himself that little bit longer.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Living under my bed.
SAMPLE:

Please, no.

[kim]