Roman Eugene Killens
Nicknames:
Roman
Killens
Age:
21
Date of Birth:
December 22
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Job:
Street fighter
Janitor
Pizzeria Employee
Origin:
London, England [0-13]
New York City, New York [13-present]
Personality:
| Quiet | Non-confrontational |Relaxed |Irritable |
Roman is a relatively simple guy who, enjoying his own company, keeps to himself. He doesn't mind hanging with other people, especially those he's closer too, but he's typically high on something when he is socializing which makes people more endearing than he would think them to be while sober. Because he has tendencies to bottle things up out of a want to avoid conflict, he can be quite passive aggressive. He prefers to mind his own business and expects others to do the same when it regards him, so he's a very private person. He's not completely cold, and can sometimes even be rather flirtatious if he's in a playful mood (or in a heightened state). Even then, he doesn't really do commit and prefers to just live life day by day, as that's what he's been doing since being on his own. He finds that doing this is most calming for him and prevents him from stressing out as he has tendencies to do.
He is easily irritated, mainly when he's dealing with a bad crash, or just if he's in a bad mood. When he's like this he can have a rather smart mouth or just close off as a whole. He doesn't like when people bring up his substance abuse problems, as he refuses to believe he has one. Should it ever come up in conversation, he gets rather defensive. Apart from his uneven personality, flaws and all, he is generally a rather nice person. He can appear somewhat standoffish because he can be so quiet to the point of coming across as rude, but when he cares about someone, he does so in full. He never intentionally goes out of his way to cause someone harm, although when he does end up hurting someone, he doesn't necessarily do much to fix it either.
Likes:
| Getting high | Casual Sex |Candy |Naps |Puzzles |
Roman loves sweets. While his tough and dark exterior might suggest the opposite, he has a big sweet tooth and consumes more sugar than he should. His favorite type of candy is chocolate anything, mainly Reese's Cups. He also really likes Red Vines, mainly because they don't have them back home. When he's not earning cavities, he likes to sleep and watch television. He enjoys drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes and weed, activities he tends to partake in especially when waiting for the next high. While Roman can get overwhelmed by people easily, he does like walking around the city and sitting in parks, enjoying the weather. He will usually do this if the apartment is starting to feel to small or if he just needs to get out to breathe some fresh air. Because the coffee shop is right across the street from the apartment, he frequents there a lot to appreciate the atmosphere and maybe even a nice dessert and a cup of tea.
While he doesn't really like doing much of anything, just from being worked too hard as a child, sometimes he gets angsty if he sits still for too long. While some of things he does to get rid of this feeling might be questionable and/or illegal, a lot of the times he'll frequent the gym. Exercising is one of the few laborious tasks that he doesn't mind doing, especially since he has to keep up with his physique what with being a fighter. In exchange for the janitorial work he does for handler, he gets some work out time and does his best to utilize that time whenever he can. And although he wants nothing to do with school, he still enjoys giving his mind a little workout from time to time as well. He likes going through puzzle books like Sudoku and solving crosswords.
Dislikes:
|Confrontation |Crashing/Bad trips |Expectations |Failure |His addiction |
He can find someway to dislike anything depending on his mood. Mainly pesky sounds and loud people are the things that bother him the most. He doesn't like people who are constantly bringing drama with them or who are openly confrontational. One of the major things that gets under his skin is when people bring up his addiction. He chooses not to acknowledge, somehow reasoning that if he pretends it's not a problem, it really won't be. No matter how false he knows this is deep down, he still attempts to hide it as best as he can, because even he doesn't like knowing that he can't control himself. Although a lot of (trivial) things can bother him, he'll never really address them and instead tends toward passive aggression. That being said, he doesn't like being confronted about issues. Roman isn't one for commitment or sentiment, not because he has anything against either, but just because they make him uncomfortable a lot of the time. He also doesn't like being asked about his past as he refuses to address it himself. To do so would bring up internal problems he's yet to solve, and is not ready to do. He does many things to distract from this, and one of them is by avoiding complication when he can, whether that means avoiding people or situations. This can make him come across as disinterested, and while sometimes it might be true, most of the time it's due to his not wanting to make a mistake as he hates messing up, even though he knows that he's currently doing nothing to benefit him.
Shortly after finishing school, he was due to begin university but had to delay it for a year because of his mental instability, by word of his doctor. His increased stress and anxiety led him to being susceptible to lots of illnesses, so while he wasn't mentally healthy enough to go onto university just yet, he also wasn't physically ready either. While his mental illnesses were something unexpected (at least by his parents who couldn't fathom how he could even be stressed to this point), his physical weakness was no novelty. Growing up he was constantly getting sick. There was nothing severely wrong or life threatening with him, it was just that he had a weaker immune system than others and was more susceptible to being sick. After a year in and out of the doctor and feeling like a disappointment to his parents, he began his first year of university at age eleven. It turned out that he still wasn't ready for everything that came with university, and while he maintained his grades, he began suffering mentally again and was back to his doctor who requested he take at least a semester off.
By this point, his parents were fed up and frustrated with him, deeming him too lazy to want to do the work. The next few months to come ended up only doing more harm than good despite not being in school because there was so much tension between him and his parents. December that year, he went to stay with his grandparents in America while his parents went on a business trip and then a vacation in the States. Roman was convinced that they were just trying to get a break from him, and he wasn't too upset about it because he was ready to get away from them as well. Once they returned to London, he began acting out, saying he was done with school and done with them. Unsure of what to do with him anymore, they decided to sign him over to his grandparents who worked as college professors at Columbia since they were the only relatives he had who were willing to take him. While Roman was angry with his parents for essentially giving up on him, he had enjoyed his time in America with his grandparents and convinced himself that he wouldn't even miss England or his parents.
Staying with his grandparents proved to be beneficial for him. They were far more understanding of Roman than his parents were. He didn't go to school right away, but he didn't go with his grandparents to work quite often. Over the next year he rekindled his energy and interest in academia and decided for himself that he wanted to resume his studies. He began his first year at Columbia as a freshman when he was fourteen and remained mentally and physically okay for the most part. When he felt himself getting consumed again, he panicked, not able to let himself quit again. He resulted to a few different kinds of pills behind his grandparents back in order to help him with his anxiety and his attention. As he advanced in college, his personality changed some as he began to associate himself with the night scene on campus. He wasn't allowed to go to college parties, but at fifteen he was sneaking out and doing so anyway and making the most out of his time while there. When he was finally able to convince his grandparents to let him stay in the dorms (nevertheless through much arguing and complaining), it only gave him easier access to certain recreational activities. While his grades slipped a bit and his relationship with his grandparents suffered some (especially after they discovered he got a tattoo behind their back) he still maintained a high grade point average and graduated in a semester earlier in December, just weeks before turning seventeen.
He didn't enjoy his freedom for too long because that following January he began an internship his grandparents helped him land. Having enjoyed the party life a bit too much and the euphoria that came with, he still frequented Columbia's campus as a way to distract himself from any and all responsibility. It wasn't until June that he lost the internship, much his grandparents frustration. Instead of trying to redeem himself he continued to make the same mistakes, only getting further and further into drugs, his years of experimentation leading to a growing addiction to different substances. Although they sometimes had their suspicions here and there, his grandparents finally figured out that Roman had a problem and tried getting him to go to get help which only angered him and started a huge fight. It wasn't until shortly after turning eighteen that they put their foot down. Another argument ensued, and it wasn't that this one was any different than the others except that it drove his grandmother to tears. After seeing this, for a few days he settled down, but he eventually decided the easy way out and left.
The next few months he struggled to keep himself afloat, mostly relying on old college friends to lend him a couch, or even the floor, to sleep on. Whenever this didn't work, he would go back to his grandparents until they refused to let him come back unless he agreed to get clean. But getting clean meant admitting he had a problem, and he wasn't going to admit that because he didn't have a problem. He could stop whenever he wanted to. He turned to different ways to make money before falling into street fighting as a last resort. While it wasn't ideal, it was one of the few things that he was okay at. That summer he got a job as a busboy at a local restaurant that doubled as a strip club. It was on the first night of this job that he met Brooklyn and then Nick, the two of which he has stayed with for the past few years. Now he still works as a street fighter although it's not as necessary as it was before. He has a job working at a pizza shop and works another side job cleaning the gym his handler owns.
Height:
6'2
Weight:
Other:
Lots of tattoos
Many bruises
Face Claim:
Ash Stymest
Hex Code:
#11519E