Name: Callum Benjamin Wilcox
Nicknames: Cal [common], Ben [Alex]
Age: 21
Gender: male
Sexuality: bisexual [leans towards guys]
Ethnicity: white and hispanic
"All I want is a place to call my own
To mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone"
Callum is 5'11" and 145 lbs. He has short brown hair and brown eyes. He has a slight muscular build. He wore glasses back in high school, but now he prefers to wear contacts. There's a slight scar on his forehead just below his hairline. He has a tattoo of a seashell on his right shoulder in water colors as a tribute to the two people he cares most about even if they aren't totally in his life.
Secret:
Sold drugs in high school for money and was in a gay relationship with his best friend.
Personality: Callum uses humor to hide his struggling with things, but he also uses it to help others. He can also be a bit greedy. Especially when it comes to money. He's gotten better about it now that he's older. When it comes to his problems, he avoids it so he changes the subject. He's incredibly creative and likes the beauty of the world which part of why he and his best friend had gotten along so well in high school. That and the other thing of course.
Talents: Callum has a great sense of humor which allows him to joke around. He's also incredibly creative and pretty artistic. He's also not too bad of a cook. He's also a big fan of photography and took photos as he traveled around on his jobs.
Weaknesses: His secrets are a big weakness of his. He's not exactly ashamed of his past relationship, but he's not quite ready to come out with the truth yet. Especially to his sister. Also, a drug dealing history could be a dead end job wise if it was ever discovered. Thankfully, he doesn't do drugs but, like his sister, he finds a vice in alcohol. Unlike his sister, he's allergic to bee stings.
Fears: His secrets coming out is a big fear for him. Being rejected by his best friend is a big fear of his, but they had a falling out so, for the moment, it's mutual. He's also worried about being a disappointment to his sister. She's off at medical school (or so he thinks) while he's working part time anywhere that will accept him. He wants to one day go to get his GED and go to college, but he isn't sure what he wants to do or who would take him.
"I could never be what you want me to
You pulled me under to save yourself"
Callum and his twin sister Gemma were inseparable as kids. They did everything together and always had each others backs. Even in middle school when Gemma would get picked on for dying her hair red and cutting her bangs. He thought it suited her, but others thought it made her look like a little kid. The last time they had really spent together before everything fell apart was a trip to the beach for their birthday party. When they were little he had found her a rather large and intact sea shell that was slightly gold and white in color. Somewhere along the way it broke and she was devastated so for her birthday he got her a gold seashell locket.
A few years into high school, things started to change between the twins. Callum and his best friend started their drug business to earn some cash while Gemma was working hard to keep her GPA up so she could go to medical school. All that time spent on art work and hanging out with his friend, he came to realize that there was something more than friendship growing between them. At first, he figured he was imagining things, but something clicked between them and before they knew it they were together.
As their senior year began to come to a close, Callum noticed how the drugs his best friend was taking to deal with his own personal problems were taking a toll on him. He tried everything he could to get him to stop, but sometimes there's just no helping someone with a problem. Sometimes they need to help themselves. Callum thought the best way of helping his friend, his love, do that was to leave. He avoided him and once they graduated, he packed up, got out of the drug dealing business and left.
Other: Now that he's back home, he's hoping to reconnect with his sister... and hope his best friend is still around. He wants to make amends with him.
Faceclaim: Alberto Rosende
Hex: #004d00