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✼Likes: Women, drinking, and parties
✼Dislikes: His older brother, hangovers, and himself
✼Quirks: Speaks with a somewhat Brooklyn-esque accent, always playing with his hair, coughs often
Rust ✼ Burgandy
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Braeden is, at his core, incredibly insecure. Despite efforts to hide this behind a veil of perverted comments and lecherous behaviors, a hard-drinking party lifestyle, and a wide range of emotions, those who know Braeden find it fairly easy to see the self-loathing he tries so hard to drown in alcohol. Perverted and more than a little aggressive, Braeden is essentially all the worst things a person could be rolled into one guy...but truthfully, it’s loneliness driving most of his actions. Those who manage to call him a “friend” find him loyal, invested, and caring.
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Braeden was a child of rape. The husband of his mother took pity on Braeden and convinced his mother, Melissa, to keep the child. Despite worry and a bit of disgust, Melissa complied.
However, it was obvious from the beginning that she never really cared about her second son. She and her husband had already had a beautiful boy named Kaiden--Braeden was just an accident. As a child Braeden learned to act naughty to get attention, and when he was released unsupervised into the world as a teenager, built-up aggression and attention-seeking habits led him to a fight with one of the local gang leaders. Through sheer ingenuity and skill, Braeden won out and took control of the gang.
He began getting involved in alcohol, parties, smoking, drugs, and sex--essentially everything his parents should have warned him away from--but between Melissa’s preoccupation with Kaiden and her husband Aiden’s death years prior, Braeden had no one around to keep him on the straight-and-narrow.
Somehow his gang grew to rule the city from the sidelines, enforcing their own twisted rules with an iron fist. These exploits caught the attention of Hope’s Peak and, desperate to prove he had some kind of worth, Braeden hassled to accept the invitation, leaving his gang in the hands of a capable member he considered his closest friend.
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