Post by quasi on Apr 22, 2011 21:14:53 GMT -5
...Simon Bernard Wyatt*
*No one wants to stay cooped up here forever....*
[/size]*No one wants to stay cooped up here forever....*
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...basics*
name Simon Bernard Wyatt
nickname Si? No, that's stupid. Mon? Ugh, no, that's dumber. Perhaps just Wyatt? Anything you like, I'm not picky.
age 17
gender M-male of course.
grade Homeless.
hometown Knox, Maine
sexuality W-w-well. .. I do find b-breasts to be quite lovely, so I do suppose that makes me... straight. Yes.
personification Quasimodo.
status Dormant.
face claim Spencer Treat Clark
...appearance*
hair color Dishwater blond. A little long, scruffy, always in need of a good combing.
eye color Pale, milky, blue. Not like, POW blue. Just, blue. You'd be lucky to see them, as he does hate eye contact.
build Lank and tall, but strong.
height 6' (1.83 m)
clothing style Whatever he can get a hold of.
distinctive traits Let's see here: A stutter, some body scarring, his tendency to ramble almost aimlessly, fidgety, and won't look people in the eyes. I think those are pretty distinctive.
...personal*
personality
Aspurgers:: Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) is an autism spectrum disorder. It means someone has autistic qualities but that they are not as severely affected; they are on the “higher end” of the autism spectrum. It accounts for thing like his ability to retain random facts, his love of collecting bells, and also his crippling social anxiety.
Shy:: Simon doesn't get people, and they don't get him. It was something he accepted long ago actually. But he has his bells, and finds them quite comforting. So long as no one touches. No touchy his bells.
Rages/Fits:: When correctly provoked, Simon can go on a bit of a rampage. If this were D&D he'd be a very mild mannered Barbarian, who goes into Berserk mode occasionally. They are short lived, and he is often quite contrite afterward.
Formal:: Despite his stutter, he is actually quite eloquent. He uses the terms Sir and Ma'am or Miss quite often, and is very polite in his way. Also he has a tendency to phrase thins peculiarly. EXAPM: RETURN! as oppose to: COME BACK!
past Simon kind of had a shit start, to be honest. To put it bluntly, he was a crack baby. FUUUN! His Mother, whose name he never found out from his mean spirited Aunt Ruth, was a severe drug addict who apparently had no idea who the babies Father was. Unable to deal with the responsibilities of child rearing, she left the infant with either her sister, or sister in law. Again, it was never specified to Simon. His Aunt Ruth detested the boy, but took on the burden none-the-less. He always assumed that the hatred stemmed from the hatred she felt towards his Mother, and in the same throw, she put up with him because deep down she loved the faceless woman.
When he was five, Simon was involved in an automobile accident that left his chest severely scarred. Since he was so young when the scarring occurred, they stretched as he grew, and deformed his torso. It's something he's quite self conscious about.
Anyways, soon after the accident, he was diagnosed with aspergers, though his Aunt was quite convinced that he was faking it. When he was fifteen, she purposefully broke one of his beloved bells. He attacked her and was subsequently thrown out of the house. Not wanting to go to Foster care, as he had heard such horror stories, Simon began to drift along, fading into the background wherever he went. No one saw him, no one remembered him, no one spoke to him. He quite liked it that way.
present Currently he is staying under a bridge in New York, but as it is getting steadily chillier, he will be searching for new residences soon. He carries a back pack everywhere, holding 54 meticulously bubble wrapped bells, one pair of pants, and one tee shirt. Sometimes food and a book he manages to steal from the library (though he always returns it when he is finished reading it).
family
Mother: Drug addict, somewhere in Maine probably.
Father: Eh, no idea.
Aunt Ruth: Kicked him out. Lives in Knox.
No siblings that he knows of.
likes
1.) Bells. He loves Bells.
2.) People watching.
3.) Music.
4.) Warmth.
5.) Feeling like he belongs somewhere.
6.) Art. He can't do it, but he has a deep appreciation for all sorts of art.
7.) History. He will read and read and read for hours on history, and often spouts random facts.
8.) When people pretend not to notice his social inadequacies.
9.) Feeling normal.
10.) Safety.
dislikes
1.) Disorder.
2.) When things do not go according to plan.
3.) When he says things with his outside voice that was suppose to be his inside voice.
4.) People touching his things.
5.) Being touched too much, without permission.
6.) Being called a freak.
7.) His scars being noticed.
8.) Large crowds.
9.) His rage and panic attacks.
10.) When he says the wrong thing. Which is often.
other notes Knows a bit of latin, is well read, gets fixated on random things.
...literature*
book title Hunchback of Notre Dame
backstory Quasimodo was born with physical deformities, which Hugo describes as a huge wart that covers his left eye and a severely hunched back. He is found abandoned in Notre Dame (on the foundlings' bed, where orphans and unwanted children are left to public charity) on Quasimodo Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, by Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, who adopts the baby, names him after the day the baby was found, and brings him up to be the bell-ringer of the Cathedral. Due to the loud ringing of the bells, Quasimodo also becomes deaf. Although he is hated for his deformity, it is revealed that he is fairly kind at heart.
Quasimodo is feared and hated by the townspeople. Looked upon by the general populace of Paris as a monster, he relies on his master Claude Frollo and frequently accompanies him when the Archdeacon walks out. He first encounters the beautiful Gypsy girl Esmeralda when he and Frollo attempt to kidnap her one night. Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers arrives to stop the kidnapping and captures Quasimodo. He later falls in love when she gives him water as he is being punished at the pillory.
Esmeralda is later entangled in an attempted murder and sentenced to hang for both the attempted murder and witchcraft. As she is being forced to pray at the steps of Notre Dame just before being marched off to the gallows, Quasimodo slides down with a rope, and rescues her by taking her up to the top of the cathedral, where he poignantly shouts "Sanctuary!" to the onlookers below.
However, Quasimodo is never loved by Esmeralda, the main theme of the book being the cruelty of social injustice; although she recognizes his kindness toward her, she is nonetheless repulsed by his ugliness and terrified of him, however unfairly. (In the 1982 television film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, she kisses him goodbye at the end; something that does not occur in either the book, nor any other film version of the novel.) He continues to watch over her and protect her regardless, and one point saves her from Frollo (and stops short of killing him) when the mad priest assaults her in her room.
After an uneasy respite, a mob storms Notre Dame, and although Quasimodo tries to fend them off the mob continues attacking until Phoebus and his soldiers arrive to fight and drive off the assailants. Unbeknownst to Quasimodo, Esmeralda is lured outside by Frollo and subsequently seized and hanged. In despair, Quasimodo murders his former benefactor, Frollo, when he realizes that he has sealed Esmeralda's doom in hopes of quelling his lust for her. He leaves Notre Dame, never to return, and later goes to Mountfaucon (a huge graveyard in Paris where all hanged bodies are thrown) where the bodies of the condemned are dumped and dies clutching Esmeralda's body. Years later, an excavation group finds both their skeletons intertwined. When they try to separate them, Quasimodo's bones crumble into dust.
Quasimodo's name can be considered a pun. Frollo finds him on the cathedral's doorsteps on Quasimodo Sunday and names him after the holiday. However, the Latin words "quasi" and "modo" also mean "almost" and "the standard measure" respectively. As such, Quasimodo is "almost the standard measure" of a human person.
In the novel, he symbolically shows Esmeralda the difference between himself and the shallow, superficial, self-centered, yet handsome Captain Phoebus with whom the girl is infatuated. He places two vases in her room: one is a beautiful crystal vase, yet broken and filled with dry, withered flowers; the other a humble pot, yet filled with beautiful, fragrant flowers. Esmeralda takes the withered flowers from the crystal vase and presses them passionately on her heart.
A small sculpture of Quasimodo can be found on Notre Dame, on the exterior of the north transept along the Rue du Cloître-Notre-Dame.
^ WIKIPEDIA ^
In a nutshell, it's cool you're a nice guy Quasi, but we can't have you fucking up the gene pool.
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