N a m e ? Finley James Brettner
N i c k n a m e ? Finn or Brett
A g e ? Twenty
M a j o r ? Dance and Choreography
S e x u a l i t y ? Heterosexual. And He'd rather like it if people would stop spreading rumors otherwise.
H o u s e ? Kappa Alpha
T h o u g h t s o n b e i n g a K a p p a ? Well, I rather like my fraternity, to be honest. Maybe we get pushed around a bit here and there, because we aren't as popular as the Betas or as intimidating as the Sigmas, but I'd like to think that the Kappa house is a lot friendlier than other houses by far. Besides, regardless of what some may tell you, a lot more successful people come from this house- we know how to focus on the important stuff a lot better than some other houses I could mention, you know? Plus, we're the brother house of the Thetas, who are a lot better than some of the other girls, in my personal opinion.
L i k e s ?
Dancing
Being a Kappa
Superhero Movies
Video Games
Reading
Chivalry
Singing
Chocolate
Nerds (The Candy)
Theta Girls
People with Talents
Romance Novels
Cats
Ultimate Frisbee
Sliding down hills on cardboard
Swing sets
Mixed Tapes
The City
Stargazing
D i s l i k e s ?
Rumors
People saying he's gay
Stereotypes
Republicans
Science Fiction
Rap Music
Hip Hop Music
Sitting Still
Shallow Girls
Arrogance
Anime
Salsa Dancing
Vegetables
Rural areas
Kites
First-Person Shooter games
Dolls
Perfection
Movies about dancing
Horses
F e a r s ?
Horses
Heights
Ladybugs
Death
Life after college
P e r s o n a l i t y ?
True to the personality trait associated with his dorm, Finn is something of a sweetheart, the sort of guy who likes to try and prove that chivalry, in fact, is not dead. He is the guy who will give his jacket to a girl and get a cold because of it, or will end up stuck holding open a door for a long line of people into a building. You see, the young man also tends to have fairly bad luck, and therefore his chivalry tends to benefit others more than himself. He has often been teased about this, when the side-effects are obvious, like getting his favorite jeans dirty to stop a girl from being splashed with water, or missing an audition because he was helping a lost child. Despite the negative effects he often faces, Finn continues to try and defy the belief that the traditional ways are dead. Despite this effort, he still ends up the sort of guy who puts himself on the line to help the girl he loves, only to end up stuck in the dreaded friendzone. That's right, Finn is that guy. The one that gets the girl in movies, but is often left hanging in the real world because he doesn't present the same 'adventure' that other guys might. He is a hopeless romantic, but none of his hopes have been fulfilled to this point, because he always gets the 'I'm glad we're friends' or "You're my best friend' block. This does make him somewhat bitter, because the young man is hardly perfect, and admittedly some amount of resentment is building over the whole friendzone paradigm.
In a less social aspect, the young man is also a very hard worker, determined to see through anything that he starts. He's been dancing since he was only five years old and was enrolled in his first ballet class, and through hard work has been able to get into secondary schools for the arts, graduate with honors, and be accepted into the prestigious Fulton University. His mind is a very goal-oriented one. Without a destination, he tends to wander aimlessly and be unsure. With one, however, he seems able to do nearly anything that he puts his mind to, even if it isn't the most intelligent thing in the world to do. On that topic, Finn is more of a heart than a mind, the sort who has to study in order to acheive good grades. His grace and dancing ability are a combination of hard work and natural talent, but anything to do with grades tends to be something which he worked relentlessly towards. Academics have never come to him as easily as dance does, and the young man often finds himself needing a tutor or something of that sorts (luckily, his house is the brainy one). He is often viewed, secretly, as the person with the least natural intelligence in his house. However, at the same time is known for being a hard worker, who is willing to put off pleasure in order to get something done and not ruin the house's sterling academic record.
There are two types of anger in the world: those who explode as soon as they feel an infuriated emotion, and those who hold it in until they finally just explode all over the place. The intensity of those angers is like a frequent bullet versus a bomb- the storing of anger increases the damage that can be done when released by the latter person. As might have been guessed by now, Finn is the latter personality type. He ignores any attacks on himself, goes about his day striving to be better and help others, etc. But eventually a point must be reached when the cup can hold nothing more, and everything spills out. To see Finn reach that point is a terrifying thing indeed, though it usually only happens maybe once a year (more often, if there are trying circumstances). One can identify it coming when the boy starts shutting himself in his room to play video games and read, or begins to make more mistakes in his dancing. Then, the next person who irritates him in even the slightest way had better run, because he will unload a year's worth of frustrations on them. That being said, he also does occasionally go into a depressed state, something which is slightly more frequent but not incredibly so. He will dance more in those periods of time, but also will seem out of it and won't leave his room unless he has to, watching depressing movies and listening to the cello. He can be cheered up in these times by certain acts, but will generally get over it in a few days. They often follow a rejection from a girl, or doing poorly in a dance audition.
H i s t o r y ?
Joseph Brettner was one of those kind of girly guys who married an incredibly beautiful and feminine wife to try and compensate for his own lacking in height and masculinity. He was the guy who always tried to act tough, but looked ridiculous doing so because of a small frame and face that would never be anything more than boyish. That is why he married Marie Helten, a lovely young dancer that he met during college. She had dreams of becoming a world-famous dancer, a premier ballerina, but had those dreams cut short when she was just getting started in the world and experienced an accident involving faulty stage lighting and being paralyzed from the waist down. Never able to walk, let alone dance, again, the young woman was forced to give up her dream, and became a housewife to take care of her only son, who had been born just a year before the accident. While this did mean that Finn would grow up having a much more present mother than otherwise, he often wonders what it would've been like if his mother had been able to realize her own dream. Those are all purely hypothetical meanderings, however, and can have no effect on the past. Everyone knew that it was a given that Finn would be put in dance classes from an early age, possibly because his mother wanted to live vicariously through her only a child, but most expected him to drop out as soon as he was old enough to figure out that dancing was a thing mostly for girls.
However, this was not to be the case, and the young man continued on with his lessons quite passionately, thrilling his mother by an early declaration of wanting to be a dancer and choreographer when he was older, and soon was really quite good. As though it ran through his blood, he had a natural sort of grace and sense of physical rythm. Besides that, being basically the only guy in his class meant that the young man received lots of practice through his solos. Around fifth grade, other boys started to realize that the fact that he still danced, and loved to do it, wasn't entirely normal, and he soon was the guy who everyone branded as gay, lame, strange, etc. While he didn't really mind the first or third one, he despised the second in the way that people despise the use of the R-word as an insult. After all, lame simply means to be unable to walk normally, and with a parapalegic mother and a dream of dancing he took this quite seriously. Still, the young man was always the sort to suffer in silence, and did so, with the exception of a few explosions during his middle school years. Freshman year, he auditioned and was moved immediately up to the Senior Dance Company, due to both his talent and the fact that they needed a male dancer for some of the parts. Other than this, he began to dislike the rumors of his sexuality even more, because he soon found out that, when girls hung out with him, it was often with the belief that he was homosexual. He doesn't find anything at all to be wrong with being of that orientation, of course, but when every single girl he liked responded to him asking them out on a date with either 'I only think of you as a friend' or 'Wait- aren't you gay?', one begins to grow a bit, well, frustrated. So grew his dislike for such rumors, and his longstanding tradition of being friendzoned.
Most dancers and such want to go to schools that are specifically designed for their talents, but Finn had other targets in mind when he began thinking about such things, rather early in high school actually. He wanted to go to Fulton University, famous for its Greek system and for its arts program, though that wasn't the main focus of the University (the latter wasn't. The greek system was definitely the University's focus). Knowing that he would need the grades to make it, immediately Finn began going to tutoring sessions, and balancing out school and dance until he found a compromise which could allow him to, by the time applications were sent in, be able to write down a 4.0 GPA on his transcript. Doubtless, no one worked harder to get those grades than him, who studied through holiday breaks and reviewed the next year's course work during his freetime over summer break. So it came to be that, freshmen year, the young man stood outside of Fulton University. Probably because they incorrectly believed her had the natural brains which they valued, Kappa accepted Finn as a pledge, and eventually a full-fledged member. By the time they realized that this wasn't the case, he had become an integrated part of the fraternity, and people were willing to help him so that he could keep up to the standard. So we come to be at the present, where he has become an established member of the fraternity, a prosperous junior who interned with a famous dance company over the summer, and the 'Big Brother' of one [Drew Roy FC].
