{"At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”}
-Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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|{Full Name}|
“The name is Bennett. Make sure you remember it because you’ll be screaming it later.”
Bennett Sebastian Atkins
|{Nickname}|
Ben {Typically called by his parents}; Benny {Used mostly by love interests}; Bas or Sebas {Most commonly used by friends}
|{Age}|
19
|{Ethnicity}|
45% British | 35% Irish | 15% German | 5% Russian
|{Gender}|
Male
|{Sexuality}|
Heterosexual
|{Birthday}|
August 10th, 1995
|{Sign}|
Leo
|{Major}|
“Success in my only option and the family business has success written all over it.”
Law
|{Minor}|
International Business
|{Quirks || Oddities || Habits}|
► Bennett is constantly cracking his knuckles ► Often biting his lower lip ► When sitting, Bennett will almost always be seen shaking his right leg up and down. Even when asked to stop, he’ll pick it back up again without realizing. ► Bennett wears a ring on his finger and when nervous, he has the tendency to twist it around on his finger ► Stares off into space often ► When walking, Bennett always unintentionally puts his left hand into a fist while his index finger and his thumb stay point out (as if making a gun with his fingers) ► Sticks his hands in his pockets a lot ► Is always checking his phone ► Has an English accent ► When bored, Bennett will sometimes play with the little curl that can sometimes happen at the front of his head ► Will often run his fingers through his hair ► When he puts on deodorant or sprays cologne, he does it in either 3’s or 7’s ► Always feels the need to shower at least twice a day. You will never run into Bennett smelling bad, and if you do, he probably just left the gym or lacrosse practice.
|{Likes}|
❤ Golf ❤ Lacrosse ❤ Dancers ❤ Singers ❤ Swimming ❤ His family yacht ❤ Cupcakes with sprinkles ❤ Fruit; oranges, mangos and grapes more specifically ❤ Sleeping in ❤ Hard liquor ❤ Joggers ❤ Caramel ❤ White chocolate ❤ Parties ❤ Making out ❤ Sex ❤ Horror movies ❤ Alternative music ❤ Photography ❤ Girls who play an instrument or sing ❤ People who can laugh at almost everything ❤ Cute laughs ❤ Cuddling
|{Dislike}|
✘ Uptight people ✘ Most types of caffeinated drinks ✘ Racists ✘ Mornings ✘ Cops ✘ His step mother ✘ Country music ✘ Mismatching ✘ Attention seekers ✘ Small cars that aren’t muscle cars ✘ Documentaries ✘ Hippies ✘ Unhygienic people ✘ Reading ✘ Video games ✘ Rap music
|{Greatest Fears}|
♦ Not being considered good enough by his father ♦ Being seen as a failure by anyone ♦ Ending up homeless ♦ Being rejected ♦ Getting mugged ♦ Getting in a car accident
|{Greatest Joys}|
• If there’s anything that could be considered Bennett’s number one joy in life, it would have to be photography. The way that he can capture the beauties of the world around him is a sort of solitude for him. Losing or breaking his camera would be devastating to him. He tells his own story through the lens of his very own camera and without it, he would be nothing. • Sleeping is perhaps next on the list. With his somewhat dysfunctional family always having something to complain about, sleeping was the only way for him to escape it without actually having to go anywhere. • Driving away from his problems was another thing Bennett liked to do. Not having to stay in one place too long was probably what kept Ben sane. He’d just hop in his car and go until his gas tank gave out. He’d drive with no destination in mind, he’d drive to let his mind go free. • Having that close relationship with one person that would be there by his side no matter what went down. He never cared much about whether it was a girlfriend or just a friend, but that one person that he could connect with and pour his heart out to whether at 3 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning was always something that he cherished.
|{Life Philosophy}|
“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” –Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight
“I’ll get by in the world just fine with friends, and if I lose those friends along the way, I’ll get by even better. I don’t need people that are only going to hold me back. My father always taught me that people that leave your life on your way to success are just envious of all you’ve achieved. I’ll be just fine on my own.”
|{Good Personality Traits}|
◘ Assertive ◘ Charismatic ◘ Successful ◘ Poised ◘ Powerful ◘ Loyal ◘ Creative ◘ Logical ◘ Punctual ◘ Playful
|{Bad Personality Traits}|
○ Bold (in a negative way) ○ Dependent ○ Egotistical ○ Flirt ○ Impish ○ Overambitious ○ Reckless ○ Shallow ○ Spoiled ○ Vain
|{Personality}|
Anyone who is anyone can see that Bennett has lived the silver spoon life from the day he was born. As a matter of fact, if you didn’t know him, there was a chance you’d hear him boast about it anyway. Bennett likes to make it very clear that his lavish lifestyle was something that he was born into and will most likely inherit many years down the line when his father passes. Until then, he’ll simply bask in the life and let others know just how fortunate he is to not have to worry about whether or not he’ll have a meal to eat every day. His ego is just as large as his bank account is, too; which says more than you think. The guy has never had to work hard for anything that he’s ever had. All he had to do was ask, and he did, often. Although, the possibly says more of his parents then it does of him but regardless his dependency on his father and his money will one day bite him in the ass without him ever realizing it was coming. Living the part of a spoiled brat was something Bennett did very well too. The boy was a talker, in the sense that if something exciting happened on his big yacht last weekend, it wouldn’t be long before the story was all around school. As a matter of fact, Bennett was usually the type to get the story started himself – pretty hypocritical being that he hates attention seeking. But in his own words, “I’m not seeking the attention, the attention is what seeks me.” Either way, the ego on this one is far larger than anything anyone’s ever seen before.
Just because Bennett is vainer than any one person could imagine, it doesn’t mean that he’s all bad. Bennett is actually fairly charming in the way he goes about making friends. He’s very easily approachable but often doesn’t get approached because most are intimated by his stature. He’s not the type of guy to go chasing what won’t chase him though and perhaps that be a flaw of his but Bennett lives strictly by a few rules; 1) Don’t fall in love. It never ends well. The things that you love in life are just going to leave in one way or another. They will leave you behind and their absence will grow heavy on your soul so much that you’ll end up hurting more while they’re gone. Don’t bother falling in love because it’s all just a silly rouse anyway. 2) Don’t chase what won’t chase you. There’s no sense in going after someone that is so willing to walk out of your life without so much of an attempt to stay. Don’t make the effort on someone who make the effort on you. 3) Don’t set yourself up for failure. You know exactly what the outcome of it is going to be so why waste your time? Do what you can and if you can’t do what you want, find a way around it. Don’t be a failure. Don’t. Be. A. Fucking. Failure. 4) Always watch your own back. Don’t trust that other people are going to be there watching it for you because everyone has their own demons to fight off so don’t expect people to be there for you. Similarly don’t promise others that you’ll be there for them when you know very well that you won’t be. Which bring us to Bennett’s final rule; 5) Don’t make promises you can’t keep. As a matter of fact, don’t bother making promises at all because you know that promises are just meant to be broken.
Bennett may be vain, and he may be egotistical but if you take out the exterior shell of the silver spoon life, he’s basically just a boy that’s looking to fit in in a world that makes it hard to find a place. He’s a boy that will sit on a park bench with you at 4 in the morning when the rest of the world is asleep and you can’t figure out what’s wrong in your own life. He’ll tell you how about how the stars can only shine in the dark and sometimes we have to go into the dark to make ourselves shine. Bennett can light up your soul with words he’ll never realize mean so much. So often he puts the needs and wants of his father ahead of his own wants and needs and he’s overshadowed by the demanding man back home. It’s never truly his intention to break down other people but by the way he’s been raised, he sees kindness as a weakness and doesn’t often react well to it. He’ll always refuse being the good guy, the nice guy. He’d rather be seen as a threat because that way people wouldn’t get too close – they wouldn’t get his hopes up with the thought that someone actually cares about him. He’d rather keep a distance because it’s easier to walk away from something that was never there than it is to walk away from something that’s been embedded in your soul.
Something Bennett has always struggled with was trusting other people. When his mother walked out on him and his father, he knew then that no one could be trusted – not even his own mother loved him enough to stay so how could anyone else? Bennett struggles with trusting himself as well. He’s often torn between making decisions based on what his father wants and making decisions based on what he wants. Life is about growing up and creating something out of yourself – Bennett fears that he’s being created by someone else for themselves because more times than most, he doesn’t feel like himself.
|{History}|
At young age of 25, Colleen Muster worked a job as a waitress in a small bistro in the middle of the Manhattan. She lived in a small apartment above a smelly restaurant in China Town and worked 12 hour shifts everyday with the exception of Wednesdays. Never in her life did she think that all that work would pay off and be the cause of her meeting who she could have very well assumed to be the love of her life.
James Atkins, at the ripe age of 27, had already inherited a fortune from his grandfather Sebastian Atkins Senior. His father, Sebastian Atkins Jr., was a big shot lawyer that had inherited a fortune from his father and his father before him. James was next in line for the family business. Yet the money in his wallet didn’t cloud his vision when he stepped inside the small bistro on a Saturday night on a business meeting and was waited on by none other than a gorgeous waitress who introduced herself as Colleen. Almost instantly there was a spark; a phone call and a few dates later ended with a pregnant Colleen and a shot gun wedding that was disguised as a secret love affair that no one knew about. Nine months later, young Bennett Sebastian Atkins came into the world.
The thing about a forced shot gun wedding though, is that love may or may not be in the equation once the lust has subsided. The problem with Colleen and James was that love hadn’t stayed around much longer after the birth of their second son, Logan James, who is only 5 years younger than Bennett. Just six years into the marriage and it was already over. With a large custody battle in the works and a lot of fighting between Colleen and James, the family was quickly being torn apart. The couple tried to stay together for as long as they could – they called off the divorce and put up with each other for 4 more years then once again, not so peacefully, divorced for good. The custody battle was probably the ugliest thing out of the entire divorce – James had full custody of Bennett while Colleen had full custody of Logan, neither were permitted for visitation. And just like that, an entire family had been split up – all at the age of 9 for Bennett. Very quickly did he start putting the blame on himself – which resulted in a hatred for his mother. Soon after, James remarried a woman he fell deeply for but who Bennett is convinced only married his father because of his money. He and step mother don’t get along very well and he’s sure it’s because she’s tried to take the place of a mother he never really had.
The hatred for his absent mother set on with his step mother as she tried to persuade Bennett that she was all the mother he’ll ever need. He quickly pulled away from his family and resorted to the seclusion of his emotions. Although, now that he was the only son of James Atkins, he would now be forced to live the lifestyle his father wanted. Being brought up with a silver spoon in his mouth wasn’t enough and James wanted his son, Bennett, to follow in his footsteps without making the same mistakes he made in his early years. That was a lot to pressure to put on the boy but nothing less was expected of Bennett and therefore he was sent away to private school after private school until finally it was time for college – which is where he is now at FU.
|{Thoughts on Greek Life}|
”Thoughts on Greek life? Don’t you mean life in general? You’re living if you’re not reppin’ Beta Gamma. Step your game up.”
It’s really the only place that Bennett has ever felt like he truly belongs and maybe that’s because everyone that’s part of his house and his sister house lives the same life he does. They’re all cookie cutters and for some reason that doesn’t bother him as much as it would bother most. He likes to think that these people have his back even when he doesn’t want to believe that people are helpful to others. Nonetheless, his brotherhood is considered family to him.
|{Plans for After College}|
”I’ve had my life planned out for me since before I was born. I don’t even have to think about it anymore.”
Bennett’s had his name on a desk plaque waiting for him since the day he turned 10. From the very word he spoke being ‘No’ to the very first lie he told, to the very first argument he won against his parents, it’s been settled that he’d be a lawyer. Bennett didn’t really have a choice in the matter when picking out schools though and the only reason he agreed to it was to get his father off his back. After college, Bennett is going to work for his Great-Grandfathers law firm – Atkins & Sons – and will be one day taking over for his father.
|{Build}|
6’2 | Athletic and Chiseled
|{Hair & Eye color}|
His hair is a light chestnut color while his eyes can often vary from a sharp green to a soft blue or blueish gray.
|{Distinguishing marks}|
On Bennett’s right leg, he has a medium sized tattoo of a watercolor lion to signify his zodian sign – leo. On the inside of his left forearm, he has a small, all black tree tattoo
|{Style}|
If there’s anything that Bennett likes most, it’s matching articles of clothing. And as a matter of fact, it’s a big pet peeve when people don’t match in his presence. And although Bennett comes from a wealthy family, he’s never seen the need to go over the top with his attire. He likes to keep things simple. Bennett can be seen in something as casual as this or this to as dressed down as sweats and t-shirt, or dressed up as if going to a cocktail in this but that would only be on a special occasion. He doesn’t go over the top unless he has to go to some sort of event with his father or for school but will otherwise keep things very casual. He likes to dress nicely but Bennett hates having to put on a suit and tie if he’s just going out to a night on the town.
|{Face Claim}
Daniel Sharman
|{Dialogue Color}|
#FF0000
|{Roleplayer}|
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