STRANGEWAYES, Charlie Ryne

[charlie ryne strangewayes]

CHARLIE RYNE STRANGEWAYES

FULL NAME: Charlie Ryne Strangewayes.
NICKNAMES: None.
AGE: Twenty-eight.
GENDER: male.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Citizen..
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: Drummer for Systems Offline.

HAIR: Dark brown and short enough to be hidden under a baseball cap – as it often is.
EYES: Dark brown.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: None he can remember getting. Though he finds little ones all the time.
TATTOOS: He has a heart and soul neck tattoo. There’s a skull with antlers and roses on his stomach. An anatomical heart in the centre of his chest with snakes coming out of both sides, but styled to resemble walking sticks. He has his grandfather’s favourite quote over the top of that. His arms are covered in two sleeves that are mostly combined of horror features that go right the way down to the words on his knuckles. On his thighs he had Harry Potter and a hipster Hedwig. He also has the Deathly Hallows on the palm of his hand.
PIERCINGS: The only one he has left is his medusa piercing. He used to have his lip pierced but he swallowed it on his birthday and decided that it was best to leave it.
PLAY-BY: Mike Fuentes!

LIKES: Harry Potter, drums, coffee, Pop! Figures, crows, arcade games, trophy runs in video games, lemon meringues, hats, power tools, concerts, trains, bad horror movies, hiking trails, the colour black, hanging plants, cable management, KFC, snapchat, Halloween costumes, pumpkin carving, Christmas with his family.
DISLIKES: Cold feet, throwing things away, being called lazy, health smoothies, people who don’t look after themselves, swallowing pills, feeling tired when there are things to do, oranges, people he loves being ill, birds, gossiping girls, the popular crowd, malls, forgetting his headphones, coffee, heatwaves.
FEARS: Going deaf, birds, shadows.
SECRETS: He collects model trains, after his grandpa started him off as a little boy.
PERSONALITY: Charlie is loud and friendly. He’s a smiler, who bounces from one thing to another frequently. His ADHD has a huge impact on his personality, but Charlie embraces that. He’s funny and something of a goofball around those he believes he can relax around. Loving, this guy really does have a heart of gold. He might not always make the right choices, but you can be sure the thought was there to do good. He’s impulsive and often indecisive, which can grate on some people, which he knows. Charlie is a laidback guy who never really takes life too seriously. He’s musical and he’s pretty happy just staying that way. It’s easy to push the buttons of this sweet guy, and doing so can be a really bad idea. There are times when Charlie is volatile. When he does lose his temper he will lash out at everyone around him, regardless of who they are or what they did. He might not mean to, but when he’s upset he’s upset. On the other hand, he is a real Prince Charming. He doesn’t always get it right, but he tries so hard. He’ll take all those little things that he does pick up in conversations and tries to channel them into the most perfect night. He wants to be the lucky guy for some amazing girl one day, and he’ll do anything to make her happy. It means he’s been taken for a few rides in his past, unfortunately.

MOTHER: Allison Myers, 51.
FATHER: Harold Kyle Strangewayes, 55.
SIBLINGS: Katy Ophelia Strangewayes, 21 (half-sister)
Thurstan Lowe Strangeways, 16 (half-brother)
Poppy Kennedy Myers, 24 (half-sister)
Devin Logan Myers, 20 (half-brother)
Zachary Miles Myers, 16 (half-brother).
OTHERS: Christopher Rusty Myers, 54, step-father.
Adele Rose Strangewayes, 52, step-mother.
PETS: Benny – a Jack-Russell Terrier mix!
HOMETOWN: St. Mary’s, Ohio.
HISTORY: Allison and Harold were once in love. It was a brief romance that burned out fast. In that time though, they had a son. Charlie was an energetic bundle that turned into an even more energetic toddler. He was forever tiring his parents out, but by the time he was four, they were at the end of their tether. They sought out counselling for their failing relationship, desperate to do right by their son who was getting ready to go to school. They tried everything to make it work, from trial separations to just avoiding each other in the home. So, when they finally did divorce no one thought anything about the little boy acting out and struggling at school. Everyone just put it down to his parents splitting up, and the custody battle.

It took Charlie until he was thirteen to be diagnosed with ADHD. The diagnosis only came after a science teacher who had a son with the condition took notice of him struggling behind the rest of the kids in his class. He fell into the bubble for the condition perfectly. It was after that, with the encouragement of teachers and friends that he took up drumming. It was oddly chaotic enough that he could focus on it without feeling the pull of distraction, and it took enough of his energy that he was often able to focus afterwards. The medication helped too, of course, once the doctors found the right balance.

His life was split between two families, but both were his. Both of his parents remarried and had more children in the years to come, and while Charlie always felt a little left out around his half-siblings he had his escape in music. He could name any album and any artist from the last thirty years if he had listened to it. He was a huge fan of rhythm, and his headphones were practically another part of him. He was never going to be academically gifted, but he did his best to try to stay focused. His dream was always going to be in music though. He fell in with a band right out of high school, and after working with them, making music, writing songs together, they began to collect a fanbase. It was small at first, but eventually it began to grow. Soon they had an interest in themselves, and quickly they were looking at bigger shows in bigger venues, and actually producing the albums they had once only ever been able to dream about.

It was surreal to think that his dreams were finally coming true, but nothing felt as good as sweating under concert lights as he drummed his heart out to the people who screamed for more and yelled his and his friend’s names. He knew he could make it, even if loads of people had doubted him because he had once been this unfocused little kid who didn’t understand when he was supposed to be quiet.

A few years, three tours including a world tour later and it was still all go. The band was still churning out music as they were inspired to do so and people were still keen to listen to them, even if one was engaged and another expecting a baby with his long term girlfriend. It proved to Charlie that it had never been about the guys, but it was about the music they made together.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kimnapped.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Six Feet Under.
SAMPLE:

I’d rather not!

[kim]