by Alissa of Someday » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:49 pm
Hmmm...Well, by my count, that seems to be seven if Kumi gets a spot, but I'll enter just in case.
Name: Hal Marrison
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Personality: Though fairly easy going, Hal can be a bit cocky--the chip on his shoulder is not immovable, but, as his life has been a fairly easy one, he has come to view himself as a somewhat exceptional person, and will occasionally, intentional or no, draw comparisons between others and himself. Thanks to his work he has also become somewhat familiar (though not an expert on) cars...but has a tendency to pretend he knows rather a lot on the subject, and will say his ideas of how they work as though it was actual fact.
Brief history: If one was to call Hal a prodigy, they would probably be a bit off the mark--he is not a genius by most definitions of the term, and he hardly blew anyone's mind while making his way through his years of compulsory education, but he has a certain knack about him--he probably couldn't write prose worth more then the paper and ink used for it, he couldn't remember any of the German that he supposedly was learning in high school even if at gunpoint, and his aptitude for sports is practically nil...but bizarrely, designs seem to flow from his mind without effort--designs both efficient and attractive. His sketchings were only an amusement at first, but eventually he found himself pulled into a car company, a file of his snatched from the internet and traced back to him.
Having slipped into the job right after high school, Hal is doing fairly well for himself--his designs, though not giving him personally a lot of credit or fame, are earning him enough to live fairly comfortably...though there are those at the company that have expressed concerns that his attempts are becoming somewhat redundant as he continues to produce ideas for them.
TF notes: Pregnancy, AR below the age where my character can say, walk, and most forms of inanimate transformations are notsomuch my cup of tea, as it were.