But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
-Robert Frost
[ Glory and Gore | Lorde ]
Dɪᴀʟᴏɢᴜᴇ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✦ DE9250 || Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ✧ #C29C7A
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- Atticus
He has never been referred to as anything more than that. His name is just Atticus.
NICKNAME(S)
- Atticus is a mouthful, so sometimes people tend to shorten it to simply Atti or Att. He doesn't think that either of them sound any better than his real name though, and 'Att' is a really dumb thing to call someone.
GENDER
- Male
AGE
- Atticus is 95% sure that he's 15. The other 5% is him hoping he's secretly immortal and has superpowers.
SPECIES
- Human
SEXUALITY
- Heterosexual
NATIONALITY
- His mother was Scottish, so Atti assumes that he must be Scottish too
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- 5'4
WEIGHT
- 116lbs
HAIR COLOR
- A very obnoxious orange.
EYE COLOR
- His eyes are brown, like tree bark or dirt.
GENERAL APPEARANCE
- Atticus' most notable physical trait is the horrendous orange mop that he calls hair. It's constantly messy; never brushed, and in in desperate need of tending to. Other than that, one would notice that Atti is really quite short for his age. The sad part is that he stopped growing years ago.
Atticus does have scars on his arms, back, and legs from causes he doesn't wish to disclose. He tends to cover them up with clothing if he can, and for the ones on his arms he'll subconsciously rub with his hands.
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Atticus, at first glance, is obnoxious and challenging to work with. He's loud, often shouting things instead of simply telling them, and he tends to speak with more enthusiasm than needed. He asks questions when the answers should be obvious, he'll find difficulty in even the easiest of things, and overall he's just a pain.
Atticus is also incredibly angry; so much that it's almost startling. For someone that talks too loud and doesn't find much value in wisdom, one would think that 'anger' and 'hatred' weren't existent to him, but boy does he have a lot of it. He holds a grudge against the Beings, too, for all the things that they've done to humans. He takes their actions against his kind personally, as if every bad thing they do is solely to aggravate him. He wants revenge, and he wants it badly.
The funny thing about Atti is that he can dim down his anger shockingly well. He pushes the rest of it to the back of his mind, not allowing it to show through in his actions, and instead comes across as only having a slight resentment towards the Beings. Not a full-fledged unhealthy one.
Atticus, at a second glance, is still all the things he was before. Obnoxious, difficult, terrible company. The only thing that changes once he's known a bit better is how he's perceived. The constant dumb grin on his face becomes a little less genuine and a little more forced, his laughs seem to sound like they're being pushed out of his throat. Everything becomes more real while at the same time becoming more fake.
- ✦Fruit - Any food, really, as he'll eat next to anything. He favourites fruits the most because of how weird some of their names sound (take kiwi for an example.)
✧Sunlight - Atti's skin is quick to burn, but he would sit in a field and soak up the sun all day if he could. He can't, obviously, but it's nice to imagine.
✦Running - It gives him such a free feeling, like he can run anywhere.
✧Books - Atticus has never read more than two pages of one, but the fact that a bunch of words clumped together can create whole other worlds fascinates him. The fact that people can create those worlds fascinates him even more.
✦Yelling - RAISING HIS VOICE VERY LOUDLY is something Atti finds joy in for reasons that don't have much reasoning.
- ✦Zoos - Atticus had lived in one for too much (all) of his life. He's always hated the restrictions they enforced.
✧Loud noises - It's perfectly okay when he's the one being loud, but as soon as someone/thing else is causing it, he freaks out. He'll calm down fairly quick, it's just the split moment of panic where he doesn't know where the sound is coming from that gets to him.
✦The Beings - Atticus has an unhealthy amount of pent up anger against those things. If he was taller and stronger, he'd probably try taking one of them out. Not that he wouldn't still try now, but at least if he had a bit more height and muscle he'd have a better chance at succeeding.
✧Time - It's an odd thing to dislike, but what Atti resents most about it is that he can't wrap his head around how time can go by so fast and yet so unbelievably slow.
✦Death - No one likes death, Atti thinks. He's not an exception.
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- ✦Whistling - His mother taught him how to whistle a few songs, though if you ask him he'd say it's a pretty lame talent to have.
✧Impressions - He learned this as a way of mocking some of the zoo-keepers at his old zoo. Since then it's always been a form of entertainment to him.
✦Drawing - He's actually fairly terrible at drawing, but he likes to do it so he considers it a 'talent' anyway.
✧Morse code - Another thing his mother taught him. She didn't know very much, however, and therefore only passed on a few words and phrases to her son.
FLAWS
- ✦Prejudice - Without really knowing a Being, Atticus will assume the worst of them.
✧Temper - Atticus is too quick to anger and has a hard time making good decisions when he's upset.
✦Lack of awareness - WHEN HE TALKS LIKE THIS or brushes people off, Atti doesn't register how rude he's being.
✧Uneducated - His mother did her best to teach him, but Atticus never had any sort of proper schooling.
FEARS
- ✦Death - The form of death doesn't matter, Atti is terrified of dying.
✧Cages - Being cooped up with no where to go, trapped, is something Atticus has nightmares about.
✦Abuse - It's happened to Atticus many times. He's a bit skittish because of it, but he tries to keep this fear hidden.
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- Owl || Mother || Presumed Alive
??? || Father || ???
BIO
- Atticus was born in captivity. A zoo (a very bad one at that) had housed his mother Owl since she was only a young girl, and had been trying for years to get some offspring out of her. Apparently she had children before her son, but Atticus was never told this from anyone except the zoo-keepers. He likes to imagine that maybe, if he really does have siblings out there somewhere, that they're safe and out of reach from the Beings.
In the zoo Atticus was always causing trouble. He was one of the only children there, the others being years younger than him, and so he always found himself becoming bored. He needed excitement, but was scolded every time he tried to get any. With nothing to do, he quickly became either bored or hungry, the only two feelings Atti seemed to have back then. The zoo was always running short of food (or purposely not letting its inhabitants have any) and the sound of growling stomachs wasn't a rare thing to hear. Atticus saw many children in that zoo die at the hands of hunger, and he saw many more come very close to it.
To distract her son Owl would tell him stories. She was free once, she said, and she had lived far underground with her parents and her cousins. There had been books that she would read, and she would recite the tales to Atticus. Heroes, wizards, history, fiction. Owl had even gone so far as to try to teach him how to write by dragging sticks through the dirt, but Atticus could only learn how to spell his name. She had tried to teach him the small bit of morse code
After twelve years of Atticus being there, expenses to keep the zoo running became too high and it was shut down. Owl had thought that this would be the chance for her and her son to be set free, but quickly they were shipped off to a different place for captivity. "Orange hair," someone had told them. "Too rare to just be tossed away like that." Atticus wished that he and his mother had been brunets.
In the new zoo Atticus made it his goal to be hated. If they disliked him enough then surely they'd get rid of him, wouldn't they? They'd let him go. He'd scream at visitors and try to climb the fences. He wouldn't cooperate with the workers. He was a nuisance, but they couldn't move him anywhere else because of the reputation he gave himself and they couldn't kill him because he was 'rare'. Instead, the zoo-keepers decided the best thing to do was punish him.
Punish, a word Atticus grew to fear very much. His fear didn't stop him from acting out, though. He was desperate to leave.
His mother was later moved to a different zoo and Atticus was forced to stay behind. "No one wants you." Someone reminded him. You're too much trouble." The words were meant to sting, Atti knew, but he felt nothing but pride from them. He was despised by the Beings just as much as he despised them, and now with his mother gone it was only another reason to hate. Another log added to the already burning fire.
'Unstable' and 'violent' were the words used to describe Atticus when Dr. Ataraski asked about him. "Not safe." Someone had warned. "He'll run away and scream at everything if you don't have him locked up." But despite that Dr. Ataraski took a chance on him and Atticus couldn't have been more repulsed by it. The mindset that all Beings were murderers and monsters had been etched into his brain, and now he had to live with a family of them.
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