Samuel Foster
Mar 24, 2009 11:12:50 GMT -5
Post by Samuel Foster on Mar 24, 2009 11:12:50 GMT -5
YOURSELF
NAME
Marie
AGE
Let us guess
GENDER
Guy, obviously
CHARACTER
NAME
Samuel Vincent Foster
AGE AND GRADE
Seventeen / Junior
GENDER
Male
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Photography
LOOK-A-LIKE
Robert Pattinson
PERSONALITY
Samuel has always been a rather mellow guy, not making his presence known too much, which makes it easy to take pictures. He's not weak in any ways and nobody can push him aside if he doesn't want to be, but he's no leader, and he doesn't want to be one either. He prefers following someone else's rules, and he doesn't really care if it goes against what he believes in himself. He doesn't like loneliness, and he enjoys being in the middle of an important group of people, which usually causes him to hang out with the popular kids and shove aside the weirdos and losers, even if in the end he doesn't really have anything against them personally. He'd developped a strong ability to keep whatever he feels for himself, which helps a lot when he strongly disagrees with something his friends are doing or saying.
In spite of it all, he is a very bright guy, and extremely active. He enjoys taking part in any kind of sports activity he can find, mostly enjoying those that rely on his speed more than his strength - soccer, baseball, football, basketball. He tends to join in every team he can, which takes up a lot of his free times after school, but he enjoys it that way. Mostly, he could fit the profile of a regular jock. Aside from photography, girls are his favorite passtimes. He's not really known for serious relationships, he prefers flings by far, and he rarely has to search very far for girls who are willing enough to go for a one night stand and then go back to either not talking to one another or pretending it never happened the next day. The girls he dates are usually all of the same kind. Tall but not too tall, slim with a nice figure and good forms, pretty by social standarts and not always overly bright.
He's very talented at bottling up whatever it is that he wants to say or express, and letting it out through his photography or sports. He's a very secretive boy, in spite of most people's beliefs that he's as obvious as an open book because of the crowds he follows. Though he knows the person he's playing a part to isn't himself, and it upsets him at times to think that it would hurt his father to see him now, but it's a pattern he's fallen into.
APPEARANCE
Samuel's looks were never of that much importance for him. As a child, he had to take care of it a bit more, being sent to private schools that enforced strongly the need for a proper appearance, but growing up, he stopped caring. Though that, by no means, says that he looks bad - he is quite handsome in his own way. Standing tall at six feet one inch, Sam towers over most people he knows. His body is not very muscular, on the leaner side, but shaped nicely and in no way too skinny. He keeps his hair at near medium length, but doesn't care for it much, leaving it messy and shaggy around his head at all time, in a way that make it seem as if he has never seen a brush in his entire life, and he often hides his green eyes behind sunglasses, outside as well as inside.
Fashion is of no importance whatsoever to Sam. After spending most years of his childhood stuck in a not so good looking uniform, he now takes pleasure in wearing whatever he wants to wear, whenever he wants to wear it. Quite the ladies' man, he is a big fan of button down shirts - having discovered the advantage it can give him during a making out session - and when he doesn't wear one, he can mostly be seen around with a very plain looking t-shirt, which usually happens when he's forgotten to do his laundry and has nothing left to wear. He tends to wear jeans a lot more than any other kind of pants, and he owns three pair of shoes that are pretty much all in great need of replacing, but as long as they're comfortable and not falling apart, he prefers keeping them to getting new ones.
HISTORY
Samuel Vincent Foster was born to Victor and Helen Foster on September 2nd of 1991, in the city of Oxford, England, UK. Living in a city known for its imposing and famous University thorough most of the world gave him big ambitions from the moment he was old enough to understand its meaning, and he soon took to the crowds - constantly surrounded by it, Oxford being a very touristic city. From the youngest age, he enjoyed being in the middle of everything, and if he needed to push aside some of his real thoughts and beliefs to be able to do that, then it was no problem. He was not the weakest link among his friends, but no leader either - and he didn't crave leadership either. Well content with staying in the back and letting happen whatever would happen as long as he just nodded and went along with it.
He developped his passion of photography by the age of merely seven, influenced by his father who himself was an avid photographer. Though his father preferred scenery pictures, Samuel was always more interested with people - not portraits, but real life. A passerby tying up its shoe on the sidewalk, a child running and laughing, a long loving glance between a couple. This link between father and son caused Samuel to grow much closer to his father than his mother, who was mostly constantly working and rarely preoccupied by her son's whereabouts, trusting that he was safe in his father's care. Victor became Sam's mentor in more than one way, teaching the child his views on life and all that he thought important for the boy's knowledge.
When Samuel was merely nine, tragedy struck. On their way home from an evening spent taking pictures, the little boy and his father were attacked in the street. Samuel was knocked out from the start, and when he woke up a few days later in the hospital, it was only to learn that his father had died, stabbed several times by the group of people who'd mugged them. The denial was strong as the child refused to believe his father was truly gone, but the pain was stronger when the acceptance came, and the anger worse still. Sam soon lost his interest for photography and spent most of his days locked up inside the house, refusing to go outside - no longer trusting of the strangers he'd once found so interesting to watch. His mother ached to see him, but was helpless, realizing she didn't know the boy herself well enough to comfort him as well as she wished.
For two years things stayed the same, until the company Helen had been working for offered her a transfer opportunity - to the United States. With her parents deceased and no siblings to speak of, nothing held her back in the house that was too full of her husband's memories, and she packed up Sam's and hers belongings, moving to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Samuel was furious to leave his childhood home, the memories of his father, but he soon realized it was for the best, not only for himself but for his mother too. In a new country, a new environment, Sam found his passion back, seeing so many new things to observe and photography that he couldn't let the opportunity go. He was thirteen when his mother first heard of Gordon Parks' Academy for the Arts, and before she even spoke of it to her son, her mind was set. Samuel was reluctant for a while, not too happy with the idea of taking photos with someone else than his father, but the more he learnt of the school, the more eager he became. The application was sent, and when the acceptance letter came, he decided that now the most important thing would be to make his father proud.
[/size]NAME
Marie
AGE
Let us guess
GENDER
Guy, obviously
CHARACTER
NAME
Samuel Vincent Foster
AGE AND GRADE
Seventeen / Junior
GENDER
Male
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Photography
LOOK-A-LIKE
Robert Pattinson
PERSONALITY
Samuel has always been a rather mellow guy, not making his presence known too much, which makes it easy to take pictures. He's not weak in any ways and nobody can push him aside if he doesn't want to be, but he's no leader, and he doesn't want to be one either. He prefers following someone else's rules, and he doesn't really care if it goes against what he believes in himself. He doesn't like loneliness, and he enjoys being in the middle of an important group of people, which usually causes him to hang out with the popular kids and shove aside the weirdos and losers, even if in the end he doesn't really have anything against them personally. He'd developped a strong ability to keep whatever he feels for himself, which helps a lot when he strongly disagrees with something his friends are doing or saying.
In spite of it all, he is a very bright guy, and extremely active. He enjoys taking part in any kind of sports activity he can find, mostly enjoying those that rely on his speed more than his strength - soccer, baseball, football, basketball. He tends to join in every team he can, which takes up a lot of his free times after school, but he enjoys it that way. Mostly, he could fit the profile of a regular jock. Aside from photography, girls are his favorite passtimes. He's not really known for serious relationships, he prefers flings by far, and he rarely has to search very far for girls who are willing enough to go for a one night stand and then go back to either not talking to one another or pretending it never happened the next day. The girls he dates are usually all of the same kind. Tall but not too tall, slim with a nice figure and good forms, pretty by social standarts and not always overly bright.
He's very talented at bottling up whatever it is that he wants to say or express, and letting it out through his photography or sports. He's a very secretive boy, in spite of most people's beliefs that he's as obvious as an open book because of the crowds he follows. Though he knows the person he's playing a part to isn't himself, and it upsets him at times to think that it would hurt his father to see him now, but it's a pattern he's fallen into.
APPEARANCE
Samuel's looks were never of that much importance for him. As a child, he had to take care of it a bit more, being sent to private schools that enforced strongly the need for a proper appearance, but growing up, he stopped caring. Though that, by no means, says that he looks bad - he is quite handsome in his own way. Standing tall at six feet one inch, Sam towers over most people he knows. His body is not very muscular, on the leaner side, but shaped nicely and in no way too skinny. He keeps his hair at near medium length, but doesn't care for it much, leaving it messy and shaggy around his head at all time, in a way that make it seem as if he has never seen a brush in his entire life, and he often hides his green eyes behind sunglasses, outside as well as inside.
Fashion is of no importance whatsoever to Sam. After spending most years of his childhood stuck in a not so good looking uniform, he now takes pleasure in wearing whatever he wants to wear, whenever he wants to wear it. Quite the ladies' man, he is a big fan of button down shirts - having discovered the advantage it can give him during a making out session - and when he doesn't wear one, he can mostly be seen around with a very plain looking t-shirt, which usually happens when he's forgotten to do his laundry and has nothing left to wear. He tends to wear jeans a lot more than any other kind of pants, and he owns three pair of shoes that are pretty much all in great need of replacing, but as long as they're comfortable and not falling apart, he prefers keeping them to getting new ones.
HISTORY
Samuel Vincent Foster was born to Victor and Helen Foster on September 2nd of 1991, in the city of Oxford, England, UK. Living in a city known for its imposing and famous University thorough most of the world gave him big ambitions from the moment he was old enough to understand its meaning, and he soon took to the crowds - constantly surrounded by it, Oxford being a very touristic city. From the youngest age, he enjoyed being in the middle of everything, and if he needed to push aside some of his real thoughts and beliefs to be able to do that, then it was no problem. He was not the weakest link among his friends, but no leader either - and he didn't crave leadership either. Well content with staying in the back and letting happen whatever would happen as long as he just nodded and went along with it.
He developped his passion of photography by the age of merely seven, influenced by his father who himself was an avid photographer. Though his father preferred scenery pictures, Samuel was always more interested with people - not portraits, but real life. A passerby tying up its shoe on the sidewalk, a child running and laughing, a long loving glance between a couple. This link between father and son caused Samuel to grow much closer to his father than his mother, who was mostly constantly working and rarely preoccupied by her son's whereabouts, trusting that he was safe in his father's care. Victor became Sam's mentor in more than one way, teaching the child his views on life and all that he thought important for the boy's knowledge.
When Samuel was merely nine, tragedy struck. On their way home from an evening spent taking pictures, the little boy and his father were attacked in the street. Samuel was knocked out from the start, and when he woke up a few days later in the hospital, it was only to learn that his father had died, stabbed several times by the group of people who'd mugged them. The denial was strong as the child refused to believe his father was truly gone, but the pain was stronger when the acceptance came, and the anger worse still. Sam soon lost his interest for photography and spent most of his days locked up inside the house, refusing to go outside - no longer trusting of the strangers he'd once found so interesting to watch. His mother ached to see him, but was helpless, realizing she didn't know the boy herself well enough to comfort him as well as she wished.
For two years things stayed the same, until the company Helen had been working for offered her a transfer opportunity - to the United States. With her parents deceased and no siblings to speak of, nothing held her back in the house that was too full of her husband's memories, and she packed up Sam's and hers belongings, moving to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Samuel was furious to leave his childhood home, the memories of his father, but he soon realized it was for the best, not only for himself but for his mother too. In a new country, a new environment, Sam found his passion back, seeing so many new things to observe and photography that he couldn't let the opportunity go. He was thirteen when his mother first heard of Gordon Parks' Academy for the Arts, and before she even spoke of it to her son, her mind was set. Samuel was reluctant for a while, not too happy with the idea of taking photos with someone else than his father, but the more he learnt of the school, the more eager he became. The application was sent, and when the acceptance letter came, he decided that now the most important thing would be to make his father proud.