ALLINGHAM-HEMSWORTH, Kaden Brooks

[KADEN ALLINGHAM-HEMSWORTH]

...kaden brooks allingham-hemsworth*
*Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.*

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...basics*

name Caden Allingham, and then Kaden Allingham-Hemsworth
nickname Absolutely none, particularly not Kade.
age 21
gender Male
grade Senior in College
hometown Sleaford, England, and then Hanksville, Utah
sexuality Straight as an arrow, though he’s spent about as much time considering his sexual preferences as most toddlers have spent considering their college education.
personification Mycroft Holmes
status Dormant
face claim Ed Speleers

...appearance*

hair color Dirty Blonde
eye color Brown
build Deceptively skinny (he can lift incredible amounts of weight when he is so inclined).
height 5’ 10”
clothing style Nonchalant. His style isn’t trashy, but it’s clearly not formal. He’s almost always found in a modestly eloquent ensemble of jeans or khakis and a crisp polo or button-down.
distinctive traits Almost always has a deck of cards stashed in his pocket, up his sleeve, or other creative places. It's a game he likes to play with himself.

...personal*

personality
Kaden has fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that has afflicted him with large amounts of unbearable pain for most of his life. Kaden can't remember a time when he wasn't clenching his teeth against deep, throbbing aches in his neck, shoulders, chest, knees, and every conscious area. The condition also leads to frequent migraine headaches, which often leave him bedridden with constant, intensive throbbing in his head. Kaden has enormous trouble sleeping, since the agony intensifies at night, and is many times groggy and unattentive during the day. Though he attends physical therapy twice a week and takes painkillers as often as his conscience will allow, he’s come to find them as little but a mild distraction from the pain.

As Kaden has progressed through his twenty one years he has hardened himself to the pain of fibromylagia, training himself to separate his overly capable mind from its defective vessel. However, the carefully crafted apathy has come at a price, as Kaden has, in removing himself from his physical body, removed himself mostly from the physical world. To outsiders Kaden appears stoic, cold, and rather unfriendly. Silence has become his motive, his alibi, his red herring, and his identity. As he masks himself from the pain his indifferent and expressionless face is often a mask from the emotions and, what he considers, anyways, the superficial interactions of his fellow human beings. His answers are often monosyllabic, accompanied by a subtle, knowing nod, or a slight shake of the head.

The lack of assertiveness is not for lack of intelligence, certainly. From a young age Kaden has always found himself a slight step ahead of his peers. He could read and write well before entering Kindergarten, and had already begun to immerse himself in riddles and puzzle books before most of his fellow students had mastered basic arithmetic. Though he’s never taken great pleasure in books, music, mathematics, or other common intellectual pursuits, there’s no question that he possesses incredible powers of deductive reasoning. He has an incomparable eye for details and patterns: even the most difficult of word searches, for example, take him approximately twenty five seconds to complete. One of his greatest strengths is calculation: though he rarely has the inclination to complete a homework assignment or demonstrate his prowess in class, he is capable of very complicated analysis and tabulation in very short amounts of time.

Kaden’s sense of humor is sardonic, cynical, and incredibly private. He is known by those in his classes at the University for his knowing and rather condescending smirk. Kaden isn’t outwardly arrogant, though he inwardly holds himself in higher esteem than most people he meets, and though he almost never articulates his thoughts, the slight upturn of the corners of his mouth is often an indication that he’s found something ironic or humorous. His occasional sarcastic remark is usually so subtle that others think it completely genuine. Above all, Kaden takes great pleasure in exhibiting a disregard for the feelings of others. His trademark is nicknames, which he has for almost everyone with whom he’s on speaking terms (for lack of a better word), regardless of their wishes.


past
Rupert Allingham was 41 years old when he met 37-year-old Vanessa Hemsworth at a bar in South London. Rupert , a successful historian and a revered name in academica, was tired from a long day of exhibitions, his normally sharp sense of judgment rather dampened by alcohol. Vanessa was a reality television star who’d recently been fired in favor of new, younger talent, clinging by her fingernails to the raging and spontaneous life of her twenties. She’d transplanted herself from her hometown in West Virginia to London with the hope of savoring the last shards of her youth with the best night life in the world. Her eyes fell on Rupert across the smoky room, and meeting his gaze amidst the confusion of music and progressively more rowdy voices, she made her way over to him.

Her eyeshadow was blue and thick, her nails were long and manicured, her mascara long and shimmering beneath the lights. Her voice was as low as the lights and as soothing as the cold drinks. With handfuls of money she purchased drinks, drinks, and drinks, and with every hour the lights grew dimmer, the world grew smaller, and Vanessa’s eyes grew bigger. Really, you couldn’t blame the poor man.

He was gone from her room by noon the next day, stammering excuses, but the damage had been done. Seven days later, Vanessa Hemsworth approached a pharmacy counter with quivering hands and eyes brimming with tears. Nine months and several days later she appeared on the doorstep of Rupert and Benedykta Allingham’s residence with a baby in her arms, wrinkles creasing her face, and dark circles beneath her eyes.

Naturally, the Allinghams were furious. Benedykta was shattered by Rupert’s disloyalty, though this would soon be forgiven in the light of the more pressing question of the child. The Allinghams already had a six-year-old daughter, the couple insisted, and with their busy and inconsistent lifestyle had neither the time nor the inclination to take on another child. Rupert had spent a large amount of the past nine months flushing the embarrassing incident from his mind and certainly wasn’t willing to impose a living, breathing reminder upon himself. Benedykta was also, for obvious reasons, disinclined to act as a mother to her husband’s bastard child. But Vanessa persisted. It had been less than a year since her last television appearance, she pleaded, and she could not have this in the tabloids. She shed tears and delivered the appropriate emotional inflections, raising her voice and lowering it as needed as she explained the agony of the paparazzi, the constant media attention that would come from attempting to raise a child. She couldn’t live like that anymore, she lamented, she had to move on, to start the new life she’d always been dreaming of. It was a stellar performance, and being inherently kindhearted people all things considered, the Allinghams reluctantly took the baby in, naming him Caden. Vanessa left her email address, and though the other Allingahms would soon forget her, Caden would spend the next twelve years exchanging emails almost every night.

Though Rupert and Benedykta tried to provide a welcome and equal environment for both of their children, Caden grew up with suspicions. Edith, who was six years older than him, always seemed, through his eyes, to receive just a smidgen more food, a few seconds’ longer bedtime story, the first priority when ordering at a restaurant or lining up for an arcade game. Caden always felt like an outsider in the Allingham household, for while his parents professed to love him just as much as their own daughter, young Caden still always felt the heat of competition between himself and his half-sister. Through their homeschooled years the two strove for superiority in everything: they raced to finish math problems first, to come up with the better analysis of a poem or recite a longer passage.

Though Caden came in contact with many children his age throughout his travels with the Allinghams, he was never fully able to take advantage of the opportunities. His condition, with which he was diagnosed at the age of six, barred him from athletic activities and other pursuits that would potentially serve to acquaint him with others. It was during this time that he developed his introversion, as dwelling in an unfriendly, competitive environment took his mind completely away from other people and inward towards himself. While other children ran and tackled each other outside, Caden turned to inside games, games that could occupy him for hours without need of any assistance. After explorations and countless trials, he selected cards. Card, and card games, fascinated Caden. With their infinite combinations and enormous realm of possibility, Caden spent hours of each day in his bedroom, shuffling back and forth through a deck, dealing hands to himself and marveling over the possibilities. Cards have been Caden's best friend throughout his life, the only thing in the world he trusts enough to turn to in troubled times. And besides, thinking about them has always distracted him from the pain.

The twelfth year of Caden's life was the year the Edie moved to University, and also the year that Rupert Allingham died at age 53 of a sudden respiratory infection. Kaden was devastated by the loss of his only biological parent on the continent, though he never allowed a flicker of emotion to cross his face. Affected strongly, however, was Benedykta, who was absolutely grief-stricken. Though Kaden tried his best to console her she pushed him away. He was not her son, she cried, blinded by her anguish. Her husband belonged here, not this thing he'd accidentally shoved into the world.

Though he'd disliked the constant competition with his half sister, Caden soon began to hate his new life as an only child of a mother who was not his mother. Each sight of Caden's face sent Benedykta into a new fit of tears, often accompanied by fury. Caden was screamed at for sitting on a couch that Rupert had previously frequented, given the silent treatment for shaving at the same sink that Rupert once had, and generally berated for being a constant reminder of an incident that now, more than ever, Benedykta just longed to erase. Caden, refusing to show his hurt feelings, attempted to distance himself as well, shutting himself up in his room and playing cards with himself from dawn to dusk. But after being yelled at for wasting Benedykta's time after his condition led to his being taken away in an ambulance, came to the conclusion that he needed something new.

A few weeks after his twelfth birthday Caden sent an urgent email to Vanessa Hemsworth, who had returned to America after finding London too crowded. Vanessa was off the media's radar now, having moved to the very remote desert town of Hanksville, Utah to escape it all. Though it would be hard for her to accommodate a boy in her secluded one-room apartment hidden above an art gallery, she heard her son's pleas and grudgingly agreed to try and make room. On August 4th, Caden Allingham legally became Kaden (the american spelling) Allingham-Hemsworth, and settled himself into his mother's home.

Life with his mother was nowhere near as intellectually stimulating as life with the Allinghams, though he felt more welcome with Vanessa than he ever had in England. Kaden reveled in the freedom that came suddenly from a lack of standards and a lack of competition. He finished his education at Wayne Middle School, almost an hours drive from Hanksville, and then attended Wayne High school for four years. Though he had next to no interest in higher education, his mother insisted, and after a haphazard college search, he chose to attend Barry University.

Unfortunately, New York City held a surprise that Kaden had not been expecting: his half-sister, Edith.


present
Kaden has always gotten by in life by doing absolutely as little as he has to. This, however, he achieves in a number of creative ways. Despite being overwhelmingly bright, teachers are always intrigued by his achievement of exactly the score he needs to pass a test, exactly the average he needs to pass a class, and exactly the number of credits he needs to advance to the next grade. Kaden almost always sits in the back of class, unless seats are assigned, in which case he doesn’t make a fuss, never raises his hand, unless it’s required for credit, and has never in his life completed a homework assignment. Kaden doesn’t see the value in working hard for things he doesn’t particularly want, and he has no interest in success or public recognition. In fact, he considers his intellectual capabilities something of a privilege, one he withholds from all others except for those whom he feels have the capacity to properly appreciate them. The majority of human beings, he has concluded, including his teachers, do not have this capacity.

Kaden is now a senior at J. Barrie University, and has made very little effort to secure a job or internship. He much prefers to sit back and allow the world to spin before him: throughout his life he’s found passive observation much more fulfilling than active participation in the affairs of the world. Kaden has taken and is taking the bare minimum of classes required for his sociology major, though the pain and migraines keep him out of school one to two days a week. With his cold and enigmatic demeanor, it’s no surprise that he has next to no friends. While the rest of the Barrie students party, Kaden can almost always be found in the library, dealing cards to himself and pondering.

family
Rupert Allingham, Father
Vanessa Hemsworth, Mother
Dr. Edith Allingham, Half-Sister
likes
Cards
Patterns
Puzzles (though not if they take too much effort to solve)
Solitude
Beating Edie at anything
Mind games
Pissing Edie Off, and he's quite adept at it too
Gambling: he's never lost a bet.
Apples
Intellectual debate
dislikes
Stupid People
Athletics
Extracirricular Activities
Being bested by Edie at anything
Putting forth effort
Migraines
Being judged. He can't STAND anyone making assumptions about him.
Being compared to Edith
Being lumped in with other people
Meat
Scenarios where he's expected to show emotion
Social interaction
Being required to do something that he finds pointless
Being disagreed with
Being underestimated on the basis of age
other notes Kaden is vegan, for no reason other than that he finds the consumption of animal products a detestable human indulgence. Few people know this, however, since he is rarely seen eating anything but apples.

...literature*

book title The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
backstory Mycroft Holmes is the elder brother, by seven years, of the famous protagonist Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft appears in four of the Holmes stories: The Greek Interpreter, The Final Problem, The Empty House, and The Bruce-Partington Plans. Though his intellect rivals that for which his brother is renowned, he is portrayed in the stories as lazy, ambitionless, and apathetic to others' opinions of him. As Sherlock states, "he would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right." Mycroft often reaches the solutions of Sherlock's puzzles far before Sherlock himself does, but leaves the trouble of verifying the claims to his younger brother. All in all he is a very theoretical character, but is handicapped in the way of practicality.

Mycroft holds a very prominent position in the British government, acting as a sort of human computer into which all data is fed for tabulation. He is referred to by Sherlock as the "most indispensable man in the country."

...roleplayer*

name Monica
age 234509283
gender Magical
rp experience Fantastic
how you found ouac Fabulous
rp sample lol penis

[ZELDA]

He's beautiful. <3