Eliezer Aleshire
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Creator: Craz
Roleplay: Dream of the Stars
Nickname: Eli (EE-lye)
Gender: Male
Age/Grade: 17 (Junior)
Description/Appearance: Tall and nimble, Eliezer has a strong jaw and a sharp bony face. His nose is notched with an old pale scar and freckles arc across his cheeks, down his shoulders, and onto his arms. His eyes are the color of bright gold, vigilant and perceptive, and are lined with pale yellow eyelashes and smudged with fatigue. His bright orange-red hair is rich in color and is cropped close to his head, a short tousled mess. Eliezer pronounces his words like a true Yankee and when his temper flares his grandfather's Irish dialect sneaks through his words. He smokes regularly and buys his cigarettes from a regular student dealer on campus.
Personality: On an average day, Eli is sarcastic and mildly irritable. His gruff personality can easily get under people's skin and he has difficulty sympathizing with his fellow classmates. He often sits out alone with his thoughts, doodling in a generic dark blue notebook, a cigarette dangling off of his lips.
Perks: Eli was born as a quick and clever thinker, his brain instantly recognizing a problem and working to solve it (he used to race his grandfather in finishing the daily newspaper's puzzles) and he is able to mesmerize things after holding a picture of it in his head. He's good with his hands and juggling responsibility. He isn't fazed by blood.
Flaws: Sometimes Eli can be a bit pushy, ordering people around without thinking twice. He can get impatient under stress and is prone to resorting to anger when he's frustrated. He's terrified of flying and of going overseas and he cannot swim. Basically, he fears any sort of situation where he is not in control. The dreams are an ironic plague to him, a place where he is both in complete control and at the mercy of his sadistic subconscious.
History/Childhood: He was raised by his grandfather for almost as long as he can remember. His parents? They split shortly after his conception and disappeared from the family after dropping him off at his grandfather's apartment. From what he gathered his grandfather's trait skipped a generation, over his father, and onto him. The two got on extremely well in the Big City, sharing similar minds and habits.
Unfortunately, Eli's personality didn't get along very well with others his age, especially as he got older. It got to the point where it wasn't unusual for him to come home a day a week scuffed up. He wasn't particularly fazed by the targeting of the other kids, though he understood how serious it was becoming. Eli was never very good at fighting, though you could say he learned how to run pretty fast. Still, they were consistent in their little gang attacks, enough for his grandfather to know when to have the first aid kit ready.
Then those three, sickening dreams came. He woke up, his body violently convulsing as his back became aware of the bed beneath him, pressing into the whip marks and sticking to the blood they seeped. The nerves jolted awake in the rest of his body and he opened his mouth to scream, but only a pathetic squeak strangled out of his throat. He couldn't hear; except for a consistent high pitched whine. He struggled to see; blood was pooling over his eyelids. Finally, his throat cracked, managing an inhuman wail.
His grandfather called 911 and Eli spent a couple weeks in the hospital. While he was there a certain rumor formed into what many thought was the truth: Eli had snuck out in the middle of the night to get something and had ran into his usual bullies, who were way beyond drunk (a part that was actually true). They had gotten into it and the small gang, being spurred on by the influence of bad beer, had beaten Eliezer far beyond their usual bruise, using a knife to cut his back and face. Eli managed to get away, fleeing to the apartment and trying to avoid waking his grandfather in the process. Eliezer was thought to have tried to go to bed, but the weight of his body on his back made him cry out, waking his grandpa who then called an ambulance.
Once Eliezer was down the road to recovery, he somehow managed to convince his grandfather to not press charges, on one condition. During his hospital stay, they had received a letter from a private school who expressed interest in Eliezer. He was to go there and finish high school away from his home city. Eli begrudgingly agreed after much argument, and as he left his distant aunt filled his place as his grandfather's caretaker.
Interests/Preferred Activities: He draws his dreams (not very well, I might add) as a form of therapy. He smokes on a regular basis and enjoys debate. History and philosophy are his favorite diversions.
Others: He doesn't outright smoke in the middle of the campus, by the way. He usually goes behind a building or in the woods. Someplace secluded. And the scars on his back are still visible, just like the one on his nose is.