Post by Harrison Marshall Bryant on May 4, 2013 10:16:30 GMT -5
HARRISON MARSHALL BRYANT
FULL NAME: Harrison Marshall Bryant.
NICKNAMES: Harry
AGE: twenty-six
SEXUALITY: straight
STATUS: single
GROUP: student
GRADE: freshman
MAJOR: marketing
JOB OCCUPATION: N/A
HAIR: Brown, kind of a shaggy mess and kept long enough to run his fingers though. It also has a slight curl when it reaches a certain length, but he does very little by way of styling it.
EYES: Greyish-blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: Only old scars from his school days.
TATTOOS: He has an Egyptian themed design on the right side of his chest. It consists, so far, of the Eye of Horus, Scarab Beetle and another all seeing eye. He adds to it whenever his artist calls him with a new idea, but has no plans of letting it get too out of hand
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Hugh Dancy!
LIKES: learning new things, people who can laugh at themselves, sketching, orange juice, libraries, reading, charity work, chivalry, restaurants, dogs, classic rock music, good pens, classic architecture, cleanliness, NYC, documentaries, enchiladas, a decent workout, spring, fencing, a good night’s sleep, candy apples, long flights, water polo, fruit smoothies.
DISLIKES: insomnia, harsh jokes, business meetings, family gatherings, overly serious people, feeling alone, salmon, unnecessary crudeness, his pets getting sick, thunderstorms, fruit cake, cheap beer, hangovers, limes, forgetting to do his laundry, fried rice, cramped vehicles, loud engines, screaming children, losing his keys, too much ice in his drinks.
FEARS: cockroaches, fires, drowning.
SECRETS: While he will openly confess to being on his third round of college education, what Harrison rarely tells people is the reason why. He’s procrastinating from inheriting the family business and hopes to put it off until he has no other choice. He’s interested in the business, but not the part where he has to work with the father he doesn’t have a good relationship with.
PERSONAILTY: One of the things that can be noticed first about Harry is that he’s humorous. It’s a dry sense of humour, but he believes that everyone should be able to laugh at their predicaments and their flaws. He’s respectful and polite to almost everyone he meets, but he will speak out if someone crosses a line. He doesn’t like bullies or people being trampled over to reach the top. Harry is inquisitive and loves learning new things, which is why he will happily spend so much time in the library or with textbooks in his hand. You would also have to be pretty dedicated and intelligent to make it through college three times around, which he is. It’s stemmed from years of hard work, pressure and curiosity. He’s caring and will never leave anyone if he thinks they need his help. Even if they don’t want it, he’ll do what he can to make sure that they are okay. One thing people often notice about Harrison is that he seems tired. He does have trouble sleeping, always has, and sometimes it does show in his personality, whether it’s a more quiet approach to everything he does or obvious exhaustion. This can also make him appear restless as sometimes he ends up fussing and fidgeting more than he needs to. It’s all a big bad case of trying to shut off and never being able to. He’s friendly and will talk to anyone from any walk of life, sometimes even when they don’t have the time or appreciate his conversation. He’s confident, but not overly so and is actually pretty modest about where he comes from and the future he has already planned out for him. He likes the mystery to remain in himself and others and prefers it when there are still questions left to be asked. He’s not violent or aggressive, but he is protective and won’t sit back and let the people he cares about get walked over. He still has a chivalrous charm about himself, which makes him a rather old-fashioned romantic. He likes to take his time with a relationship and make it special, rather than sleeping around with some random bar hook-up!
MOTHER: Lydia Heidi Bryant (nee Marshall), 48.
FATHER: Harrison James Bryant, 51.
SIBLINGS: Katherine (Katie) Elaina Bryant, 20
OTHERS: N/A.
PETS: Darcy, Bernese Mountain Dog & Avalon, Border Collie & Jasper, Boston Terrier & Fenton, West Highland Terrier & Colby, Labrador Retriever!
HOMETOWN: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
HISTORY: For the last five generations, the Bryant sons had all inherited the family business. The world knows that there is a lot of money in diamonds and they seemed to rise to the top of the ladder in jewellery business and hold their own. Most of their designs were custom ordered by the wealthy and elite and far too many men splurged to keep their wives happy. Harrison James Bryant was no different, but he needed an heir to pass the business onto. After a rather unfortunate accident two generations before during which the eldest son had died awfully young and the business handed onto the second son, there had been added pressure from the patriarchs to marry quick and produce an heir. They didn’t want the business to fall into the hands of the shareholders or someone less prepared than the first born child. Harrison met Lydia through their parents and their relationship seemed more like business than the romance read about in books. Sure, they were fond of each other, content to be in the company of the other and could do far worse when it came to marrying someone. It was all very proper, and not long after the wedding, Lydia announced the news that she was pregnant.
With the birth of their son came the handing down of the name “Harrison” and the promise of a future without doubt. Before his eyes had even opened the little bundle had inherited a company, a status and responsibilities. He was a happy little boy, raised with the correct manners and attitude like his father before him, but the affection was left to the nannies hired to take care of the little boy while his father focused on the company and his mother on social dinners and functions. If Harry wanted a hug, then he found it in the arms of a woman who had no blood connection to him. He didn’t know any better at that age and so never questioned it when his father brushed him off or called for the nanny to collect the little boy from the dinner table when he was starting to act up. Generally, he was a good little kid, and when he was six he became a big brother to Katie, who had a little less of a strict upbringing. There were no responsibilities being placed upon her shoulders from the moment she was born and the only job she would have within the family would be to play the doting daughter in the pretty dresses with the nice smile. It was up to Harrison to win people older as he grew up.
His education came in the form of the pricey and renown, Eton College. Working hard to win his entry there only placed him in another line of family history and Harrison was shipped to the dormitories there, with the strict instructions to behave, work hard and make the Bryant family proud. They were the best years of his life. He made friends, never had a dull moment and despite knowing what his future was supposed to hold, he didn’t have to worry about the family business during his years there. He was just another teenage boy, away from home and taking every opportunity that came his way. He participated in the traditions of the school, took as many classes as he could convince his House Master that he could handle and had a surprisingly good place within the required sports element of the school, too. It was only during the visits home that he got a heavy dose of reality. His parents were as interested as ever, often reminding Harrison that he could “tell them later” when they weren’t so busy. His father only paid attention when he was talking about the business that he was destined to inherit or using some tale to boast to his powerful friends. Harrison preferred his dorm and his friends over the return trips to the expansive family home. At least at school he felt wanted, whereas his home life left much to be desired from parents who still handed most of the child rearing work to employed staff.
He was sixteen when he began wondering. All of his life he had been told that he had to take over the company, marry someone of status, provide an heir and hand his life to that child the same way his father had to him. Harrison didn’t have a single happy family memory that consisted of more than just him and his sister and a hired nanny. Why would he bestow that upon his own child? He also had doubts about the company. Not so much the job of it, but the whole concept of working with his dad until he retired and then taking the reins himself. Harrison had been taught to respect and admire the man, but after hearing the tales at school and seeing other parents collect their children at the end of each term while his just sent a driver, he was starting to despise the man. He had never been shown fatherly affection and even during school events, his father only made it to a handful throughout all the years Harrison spent at Eton. He had no problem taking over the company, in fact, he liked the glimpses of it he had been allowed to see, but if he had to work with his father then there would be problems.
After obtaining his A-Levels and getting the outstanding grades expected of him, Harrison surprised his family by rejecting Oxford and Cambridge and moving to New York, taking a place at a school no one had even suggested to him. He wanted to put some distance between himself and his family, clear his head and go somewhere where he wouldn’t be known or have to live up to expectations set by the generations before him. At eighteen, he chose to study business, since it made the most sense. He powered through those four years with infrequent trips homes and during those trips the clashes with his father began to happen. They were nothing too extreme, but Harrison would stand up for worker’s rights and argue against bad ideas for the company, even shouting down the man when he missed one of Katie’s big recitals at her respective boarding school. He kept his interest in the company, but his previous fears about working with his father seemed to ring true; the business would never survive if they were just arguing over how they should move forward, expand and improve on what they already had.
Finally, after graduating with impressive results and enjoying the four years in New York, it was expected that he would return home and begin working permanently for the family business. Harrison didn’t want to, not just yet. So, in a grand twist, he returned to university all over again, this time to study Economics. In an explanation to his family, he told them that he wanted to be fully prepared and to have more knowledge to build upon the great legacy already built by his ancestors. The truth was, he didn’t want to spend the next twenty years arguing with his dad. They had a strained relationship at best; neither knew the other and one was stuck on traditions while the other wished to move forward. Another four years of the college lifestyle and finding himself and then Harrison had to think fast. Once again people were expecting his feet to land permanently on British soil, but it was still too much. He constantly heard how his parents were already married and expecting him by this time in their lives, how the company really should have had his hands on it by now and several other expressions of added pressure that he just didn’t need.
So he stayed. Another lie, and this time Marketing grabbed his fancy. All of these courses were applicable to the business and no one could argue with that. He’s got four more years of sand in the hourglass and then he knows he’ll have no other choice but to return to England, unless he can find another solution. He’s happy in New York, there’s a branch of the Bryant Jewellers there, but it’s not “tradition”. With excuses running out, the outdated pressures are only building and Harrison doesn’t know how much more he can take of it before he explodes or gives in!
YOUR ALIAS: KIM
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Mars Rover.
SAMPLE:She sells sea shells on the sea shore
