Landon Seth Underwood
Dec 13, 2009 5:27:25 GMT -5
Post by Landon Underwood on Dec 13, 2009 5:27:25 GMT -5
YOURSELF
NAME
Eli
AGE
20 now!!
GENDER
You tell me
CHARACTER
NAME
Landon Seth Underwood
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Male
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Dance
LOOK-A-LIKE
Tom Sturridge
PERSONALITY
Landon is just like your average guy. He loves sports, particularly lacrosse and hockey, enjoys his Sunday football – screaming at the t.v. and cursing up a storm included. He likes girls, definitely likes girls. Though he’s different in the sense that he’s like that way inside his head and on his own. He doesn’t enjoy hanging around other people because they’re always so disappointing and annoying. Half the things that come out of other people’s mouthes make him cringe, and he’s always in desperate need of intelligent conversation. Though he mostly tends to talk to his friends back home because he hadn’t really found anyone he enjoys hanging out with. People who tend to surround him are the people he mostly tries to avoid. Not that he doesn’t have friends. He just doesn’t enjoy new people or changing his habits. Besides he mostly allows people to fear him just so they’ll leave him alone. He’s the eat alone at the rebel side of the jungle type, and he enjoys it.
When it comes to dating, Landon isn’t really that experienced with that aspect of a relationship, sex on the other hand is something he most definitely enjoys when time permits. He’s embraced his knack for ending up the ‘good friend’ and gave up on pursuing anything normal-like with a relationship with another person. He’s not exactly a player, in the sense that he usually sticks to one partner until they both decide to split, but he’s made sure not to get attached to any other girls romantically, merely for the fact that he always ends up the friend guy no matter how he approaches things. And he certainly doesn’t always enjoy meaningless sex, he’d rather have a relationship where he could be with someone he cared about in that manner, but he does enjoy sex. And he is a guy’s guy. At times he may seem like a rebel, bully guy because he’s so quite and contemplative, but really he’s just a big teddy bear. He’s sweet to those who know him well enough and exudes confidence when he’s hanging with people he enjoys being around. Though if he doesn’t like someone, he doesn’t make the effort to show his true side.
Unlike his specialty dance – modern/contemporary – he’s very closed off and mysterious. Though he expresses himself through dance. He likes to keep to himself unless engaged in conversation with someone he finds intelligent. And he often eats by himself if he has no one to eat with. He’s a loner by nature but wouldn’t mind the company of someone else, especially a girlfriend, if he could ever get a girl past the idea of just being a friend. He’s very artistic, sketching being a hobby of his when he’s not busy dancing or doing homework or studying and that – besides dance - he excels at. He’s week in math but not so much that he can’t skate by with the knowledge he has. But his normally apathetic disposition makes it harder for him to care bout something he doesn’t see himself having a use for in the future. Like anything math related. You didn’t really need math for dancing and that’s what he really wanted to do with his life. Of course the reasoning side of him knows that’s not completely obtainable or logical to plan for.
Landon is oddly cool-tempered, though maybe it comes from having patience and patient, understanding folks. And maybe the fact that he’s a farmer. Though his stoic, cool demeanor hints otherwise, Landon is actually extremely optimistic, though his views and thoughts can sometime land him in the cynical/pessimistic category. HE was always taught to look at the brighter side, but years of taunting and being humiliated had taught him to be weary of the brighter side of things, and not to always hope for them because disappointment was a horrible feeling. Though he’s quiet and reserved, he’s one of the most honest, trustworthy people it was instilled in him from a young age to tell the truth always – though the way he looks at it at times is that if he doesn’t talk there won’t be any truths he has to tell. And everyone’s known to have a little white lie or two. He has a very controlled impulse system, choosing not to act on whim and be logical and meticulous about every possible option before making a decision. He’s not very spontaneous, nor rash. He’s incredibly stubborn if it comes to something he believes in and doesn’t take no for an answer.
APPEARANCE
Often sporting only jeans and a t-shirt or sweater, Landon is a comfort guy. He likes to wear anything that he doesn’t have to fuss with. Very simple clothing suit his lifestyle. So he often wears fitted and slightly baggy tees, usually underneath a hoodie – usually a size up from his normal size. He’s usually toting around in dark blue denim jeans, or black ones, light ones never suit his like. And his favorite color, purple, is usually the color shirts or socks he wears the most, they’re his most abundant clothing. He can usually be seen walking around in converse and chuck taylors, black mostly. Though when he gets bored with his everyday look he sometimes chooses to mix it up with a blazer over top of a hoodie and t-shirt, and maybe a pair of dark cargo pants. Though he more or less tends to keep to his normal style. His hair is usually messy because he doesn’t care enough to brush or comb it and as a result he often wears beanies to cover up the permanent bedhead look. He often wears black, leather wristbands too maybe an occasional watch.
With his dominant jawline, his face is very oddly attractive, not in the sense of the everyday pretty boy, but enough to stand out and make someone look twice at him, though often he figures they decide it too bland for their taste. His smoldering blue eyes would pierce someone’s soul if he found a proper way to use them to his advantage, but they’re usually just expressionless and uncaring about everything and everyone so he’s never really had a use for them other than for people to look at and comment on. His thin, pale lips aren’t anything special either, just for the occasional girl to kiss, though he’s never heard complaints about his kissing style or anything of the sort. He has bushy eyebrows that have seemingly become permanent in their place because he rarely has any other face than his expressionless one, unless he’s laughing, and even then his laugh isn’t jubilant, it’s very simple just like the rest of him. A mere smirk of acknowledgement and the occasional jolt of his shoulders as if getting ready to laugh but he never really completes the action. Getting a smile out of him is probably the best anyone will ever manage, though because of it, it’s easy to see if he’s amused or just going along with it.
Landon – following along with his lack of care over his immediate appearance – usually has an unshave, scraggly beard, sometimes stubble if he just decides to shave. Something, though less often than more, he lets his mustache grow though he doesn’t enjoy looking like he has a squirrel growing out of his face so he usually shaves before it gets that far.
HISTORY
Hailing from Farmville, Oklahoma, Landon was never introduced to anything of lavish lifystyle. He was born in a small house on a cold day, to Jacquelyn Lane and Marvin Moraine. His parents had been high school sweethearts, though somewhere along their life together, Melinda got mixed in with the wrong crowd. She started doing multiple drugs and abused alcohol, came home late after doing so, sometimes not at all. And Marvin being the loving boyfriend he was merely ignored it like it wasn’t a problem and just tried being there for her as best he could. He liked to think that they could one day have some semblance of a normal, healthy relationship. Melinda thought otherwise. She preferred the freedom that a wild, unkept lifestyle provided her and didn’t necessarily enjoy staying at home with Marvin, though she loved him more than life itself, she just didn’t feel compelled to live that life. At one point, after being gone for nearly two days, Marvin – after having called the cops numerous times – began losing his head. He had many sleepless night for nights afterward until he received a phone call with the information that his girlfriend was in the hospital from an apparent drug overdose and had just woken from a coma.
It wasn’t until then that Marvin knew that he had to take drastic measures to save his girlfriend from a certain death. She’d been to rehab a number of times and had checked her out. Little did he know she was pregnant with their first child. Three months along. Calling the cops on his girlfriend had been the hardest thing for Marvin to do, but he knew it was necessary in order to save the woman he loved. Instead of sending her to jail, the judge gave her 300 hours of community service to be completed during her eight months of rehab. And so with that, she was hauled off to one of the best rehab centers her parents could pay for and remained there for six, with the knowledge that her baby was nearly due. She’d decided that to spite Marvin for sending her there in the first place that she wouldn’t even tell him about their baby. And so upon delivery, she immediately put the boy – who she’d named Landon after one of her friends in the rehab center that had gotten released a few months before – up for adoption, without a second thought. It wasn’t until years later that Marvin would actually find out that he had a son.
Landon was later adopted by a baren woman who desperately wanted children and her husband who just as badly wanted a son. They found that son in Landon. The Underwood family now consisted of Irene and Dale Underwood and their new baby boy Landon Seth – the name of Dale’s grandfather – Underwood. The Underwood were a well off couple, they were well off in the money department. But growing up on a successful farm had been quite an achievement for Landon. He’d learned many values that a lot of kids didn’t have the privilege of learning. He learned how to fend for himself and not to take anything for granted and had to work for the money he earned. Though his parents had no trouble giving him any money he may have needed, he liked the idea of earning it himself. He’d grown up tending after animals and plowing farms, learning how to use tractors and seeders and such. Learning how to harvest his crops on time – not too early, not too late – was something his father had made sure to teach him perfectly well.
The entire history behind making it to GPA started in middle school for his first musical. He was asked to audition by the drama teacher who thought he fit the part of the main character. He of course was against it, guys in musicals didn’t have the best reputation and were rarely respected – go figure this was the beginning of his self-inflicted solitude. And so he decided not to until he saw that the girl he was crushing on had joined and was playing female lead. IT was then that he had his first experience dancing, and was oddly good at it. He had perfect lines from the get go, mostly the only thing he was missing then was proper technique – control and balance being main points he had to work on. Though the one biggest surprise he found was that he actually liked not only musicals but the dancing that came with them. He didn’t get the lead, but he got a supporting role and for years after that he continued trying out for musicals and took dance classes with the money he earned – though without telling his parents for fear he’d lose their respect just as he’d lost that of his peers. Eventually the teasing and nonsense he’d endured and suffered with stopped getting to him, he learned to tune it out and know that he was better than anyone tried making him believe he wasn’t. And so he continued.
It wasn’t until his last year in middle school that his parents found out about the dancing classes, when a missed payment bill made its way through the mail while he was out of school. His Mom was immediately okay with, having known something was up from the nights her son had wandered up to bed without dinner and ended up passed out before his bedtime. And even though he continued his chores around the farm and house, he still managed to keep up with his classes. His father of course had some not so positive or supportive thoughts at first, but upon sitting his son down and asking him a billion questions, he decided that it wasn’t as bad – though mostly the idea of not having to deal with a gay son was the most relieving of it all, though he wouldn’t admit it. And it was then that he told them about a school his dance teacher ahd been telling him about. His parents took a look at it and after a few weeks of debating it with her husband, Irene told her son that they both supported his decision to leave the farm and pursue his dream, even though she was the only one who shared that sentiment.
And so on his freshman year, he packed up his stuff and made the journey all the way to Kansas City on his own and the rest is history.
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[/size]NAME
Eli
AGE
20 now!!
GENDER
You tell me
CHARACTER
NAME
Landon Seth Underwood
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Male
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Dance
LOOK-A-LIKE
Tom Sturridge
PERSONALITY
Landon is just like your average guy. He loves sports, particularly lacrosse and hockey, enjoys his Sunday football – screaming at the t.v. and cursing up a storm included. He likes girls, definitely likes girls. Though he’s different in the sense that he’s like that way inside his head and on his own. He doesn’t enjoy hanging around other people because they’re always so disappointing and annoying. Half the things that come out of other people’s mouthes make him cringe, and he’s always in desperate need of intelligent conversation. Though he mostly tends to talk to his friends back home because he hadn’t really found anyone he enjoys hanging out with. People who tend to surround him are the people he mostly tries to avoid. Not that he doesn’t have friends. He just doesn’t enjoy new people or changing his habits. Besides he mostly allows people to fear him just so they’ll leave him alone. He’s the eat alone at the rebel side of the jungle type, and he enjoys it.
When it comes to dating, Landon isn’t really that experienced with that aspect of a relationship, sex on the other hand is something he most definitely enjoys when time permits. He’s embraced his knack for ending up the ‘good friend’ and gave up on pursuing anything normal-like with a relationship with another person. He’s not exactly a player, in the sense that he usually sticks to one partner until they both decide to split, but he’s made sure not to get attached to any other girls romantically, merely for the fact that he always ends up the friend guy no matter how he approaches things. And he certainly doesn’t always enjoy meaningless sex, he’d rather have a relationship where he could be with someone he cared about in that manner, but he does enjoy sex. And he is a guy’s guy. At times he may seem like a rebel, bully guy because he’s so quite and contemplative, but really he’s just a big teddy bear. He’s sweet to those who know him well enough and exudes confidence when he’s hanging with people he enjoys being around. Though if he doesn’t like someone, he doesn’t make the effort to show his true side.
Unlike his specialty dance – modern/contemporary – he’s very closed off and mysterious. Though he expresses himself through dance. He likes to keep to himself unless engaged in conversation with someone he finds intelligent. And he often eats by himself if he has no one to eat with. He’s a loner by nature but wouldn’t mind the company of someone else, especially a girlfriend, if he could ever get a girl past the idea of just being a friend. He’s very artistic, sketching being a hobby of his when he’s not busy dancing or doing homework or studying and that – besides dance - he excels at. He’s week in math but not so much that he can’t skate by with the knowledge he has. But his normally apathetic disposition makes it harder for him to care bout something he doesn’t see himself having a use for in the future. Like anything math related. You didn’t really need math for dancing and that’s what he really wanted to do with his life. Of course the reasoning side of him knows that’s not completely obtainable or logical to plan for.
Landon is oddly cool-tempered, though maybe it comes from having patience and patient, understanding folks. And maybe the fact that he’s a farmer. Though his stoic, cool demeanor hints otherwise, Landon is actually extremely optimistic, though his views and thoughts can sometime land him in the cynical/pessimistic category. HE was always taught to look at the brighter side, but years of taunting and being humiliated had taught him to be weary of the brighter side of things, and not to always hope for them because disappointment was a horrible feeling. Though he’s quiet and reserved, he’s one of the most honest, trustworthy people it was instilled in him from a young age to tell the truth always – though the way he looks at it at times is that if he doesn’t talk there won’t be any truths he has to tell. And everyone’s known to have a little white lie or two. He has a very controlled impulse system, choosing not to act on whim and be logical and meticulous about every possible option before making a decision. He’s not very spontaneous, nor rash. He’s incredibly stubborn if it comes to something he believes in and doesn’t take no for an answer.
APPEARANCE
Often sporting only jeans and a t-shirt or sweater, Landon is a comfort guy. He likes to wear anything that he doesn’t have to fuss with. Very simple clothing suit his lifestyle. So he often wears fitted and slightly baggy tees, usually underneath a hoodie – usually a size up from his normal size. He’s usually toting around in dark blue denim jeans, or black ones, light ones never suit his like. And his favorite color, purple, is usually the color shirts or socks he wears the most, they’re his most abundant clothing. He can usually be seen walking around in converse and chuck taylors, black mostly. Though when he gets bored with his everyday look he sometimes chooses to mix it up with a blazer over top of a hoodie and t-shirt, and maybe a pair of dark cargo pants. Though he more or less tends to keep to his normal style. His hair is usually messy because he doesn’t care enough to brush or comb it and as a result he often wears beanies to cover up the permanent bedhead look. He often wears black, leather wristbands too maybe an occasional watch.
With his dominant jawline, his face is very oddly attractive, not in the sense of the everyday pretty boy, but enough to stand out and make someone look twice at him, though often he figures they decide it too bland for their taste. His smoldering blue eyes would pierce someone’s soul if he found a proper way to use them to his advantage, but they’re usually just expressionless and uncaring about everything and everyone so he’s never really had a use for them other than for people to look at and comment on. His thin, pale lips aren’t anything special either, just for the occasional girl to kiss, though he’s never heard complaints about his kissing style or anything of the sort. He has bushy eyebrows that have seemingly become permanent in their place because he rarely has any other face than his expressionless one, unless he’s laughing, and even then his laugh isn’t jubilant, it’s very simple just like the rest of him. A mere smirk of acknowledgement and the occasional jolt of his shoulders as if getting ready to laugh but he never really completes the action. Getting a smile out of him is probably the best anyone will ever manage, though because of it, it’s easy to see if he’s amused or just going along with it.
Landon – following along with his lack of care over his immediate appearance – usually has an unshave, scraggly beard, sometimes stubble if he just decides to shave. Something, though less often than more, he lets his mustache grow though he doesn’t enjoy looking like he has a squirrel growing out of his face so he usually shaves before it gets that far.
HISTORY
Hailing from Farmville, Oklahoma, Landon was never introduced to anything of lavish lifystyle. He was born in a small house on a cold day, to Jacquelyn Lane and Marvin Moraine. His parents had been high school sweethearts, though somewhere along their life together, Melinda got mixed in with the wrong crowd. She started doing multiple drugs and abused alcohol, came home late after doing so, sometimes not at all. And Marvin being the loving boyfriend he was merely ignored it like it wasn’t a problem and just tried being there for her as best he could. He liked to think that they could one day have some semblance of a normal, healthy relationship. Melinda thought otherwise. She preferred the freedom that a wild, unkept lifestyle provided her and didn’t necessarily enjoy staying at home with Marvin, though she loved him more than life itself, she just didn’t feel compelled to live that life. At one point, after being gone for nearly two days, Marvin – after having called the cops numerous times – began losing his head. He had many sleepless night for nights afterward until he received a phone call with the information that his girlfriend was in the hospital from an apparent drug overdose and had just woken from a coma.
It wasn’t until then that Marvin knew that he had to take drastic measures to save his girlfriend from a certain death. She’d been to rehab a number of times and had checked her out. Little did he know she was pregnant with their first child. Three months along. Calling the cops on his girlfriend had been the hardest thing for Marvin to do, but he knew it was necessary in order to save the woman he loved. Instead of sending her to jail, the judge gave her 300 hours of community service to be completed during her eight months of rehab. And so with that, she was hauled off to one of the best rehab centers her parents could pay for and remained there for six, with the knowledge that her baby was nearly due. She’d decided that to spite Marvin for sending her there in the first place that she wouldn’t even tell him about their baby. And so upon delivery, she immediately put the boy – who she’d named Landon after one of her friends in the rehab center that had gotten released a few months before – up for adoption, without a second thought. It wasn’t until years later that Marvin would actually find out that he had a son.
Landon was later adopted by a baren woman who desperately wanted children and her husband who just as badly wanted a son. They found that son in Landon. The Underwood family now consisted of Irene and Dale Underwood and their new baby boy Landon Seth – the name of Dale’s grandfather – Underwood. The Underwood were a well off couple, they were well off in the money department. But growing up on a successful farm had been quite an achievement for Landon. He’d learned many values that a lot of kids didn’t have the privilege of learning. He learned how to fend for himself and not to take anything for granted and had to work for the money he earned. Though his parents had no trouble giving him any money he may have needed, he liked the idea of earning it himself. He’d grown up tending after animals and plowing farms, learning how to use tractors and seeders and such. Learning how to harvest his crops on time – not too early, not too late – was something his father had made sure to teach him perfectly well.
The entire history behind making it to GPA started in middle school for his first musical. He was asked to audition by the drama teacher who thought he fit the part of the main character. He of course was against it, guys in musicals didn’t have the best reputation and were rarely respected – go figure this was the beginning of his self-inflicted solitude. And so he decided not to until he saw that the girl he was crushing on had joined and was playing female lead. IT was then that he had his first experience dancing, and was oddly good at it. He had perfect lines from the get go, mostly the only thing he was missing then was proper technique – control and balance being main points he had to work on. Though the one biggest surprise he found was that he actually liked not only musicals but the dancing that came with them. He didn’t get the lead, but he got a supporting role and for years after that he continued trying out for musicals and took dance classes with the money he earned – though without telling his parents for fear he’d lose their respect just as he’d lost that of his peers. Eventually the teasing and nonsense he’d endured and suffered with stopped getting to him, he learned to tune it out and know that he was better than anyone tried making him believe he wasn’t. And so he continued.
It wasn’t until his last year in middle school that his parents found out about the dancing classes, when a missed payment bill made its way through the mail while he was out of school. His Mom was immediately okay with, having known something was up from the nights her son had wandered up to bed without dinner and ended up passed out before his bedtime. And even though he continued his chores around the farm and house, he still managed to keep up with his classes. His father of course had some not so positive or supportive thoughts at first, but upon sitting his son down and asking him a billion questions, he decided that it wasn’t as bad – though mostly the idea of not having to deal with a gay son was the most relieving of it all, though he wouldn’t admit it. And it was then that he told them about a school his dance teacher ahd been telling him about. His parents took a look at it and after a few weeks of debating it with her husband, Irene told her son that they both supported his decision to leave the farm and pursue his dream, even though she was the only one who shared that sentiment.
And so on his freshman year, he packed up his stuff and made the journey all the way to Kansas City on his own and the rest is history.
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