Age: 17
Place: 16-17: Leader- makes all of the important decisions, enforces the rules, and ensures that everyone has what they need.
Description:
Personality: In his free time he can often be seen playing with the kids smiling, laughing, and generally having a good time. However, what no one realises is that is making sure that he is very gentle with them, scared that he might hurt one of them. In fact, he can always be seen smiling and laughing when around his makeshift family but it is only a mask to hide the pain of losing his real one and the fear of being abandoned by this one as well when he becomes a legal adult. In spite of all of this he never shows any of his fears to his family, making them think that everything is alright with him, and the only times that he can ever be seen as serious is whenever he is making a decision, dishing out punishments, or while listening to the others' problems and giving them advice.
His way of relieving stress is by playing the guitar that his mother had given him, but he only plays it when he is certian that no one will hear him so he had no idea if he is any good or not, all he does is play whatever feels right. He is happy to give whatever he has to help his family, the only thing that he holds back on is his guitar, which everyone knows that you are never suppose to touch, other than that he is pretty laid back. He has an extreme amount of patience and tries to never let his anger get the better of him, so that he doesn't turn into his father, something that he tries to stress with everyone to follow his examle in.
On the flip side, with outsiders (basically anyone who isn't homeless and their basic needs get met and then some) he is very cold towards and shuts out completely, knowing that they could never understand what they'd been through. He doesn't want to hear what they have to say, thinking that they might be setting him up for some sort of trap and in doing so making him look like a fool or worse put his family in danger, and so turns a deaf ear to them. If any of his family were to be in any danger he would put himself in the line of fire to shield them before any harm could befall them and he would try his best to take out the one responsible at the same time.
History: Was born into an abusive home, his father was constantly drunk and beat him while his mother just stood by and watched. It had started when he was three and his father had lost his job and was having trouble finding another one. By the time that he was seven the beatings had gotten so bad that he'd once almost died from one of them. His mother fearing for his life and not wanting to leave her husband, packed his things and some food and late one night drove him to a deserted park and left him there. Before she left she gave him an acustic guitar that had belonged to her father, hoping that he'd be able to learn how to play well enough for him to be able to support himself on tips. Instead he kept it as a constant reminder of what his parents had done to him and promised himself to never do to another member of his family, and even though he did play it, he never played it while anyone was around.
Likes: chocolate, his new family, music, being able to meet their basic needs, the night, stars, playing his guitar and singing, animals
Dislikes: his parents, alcohol, smoking, drugs, abuse, abandonment, rashness, having to make his family go without something, being unable to solve all of their problems, pity, people that hurt or endanger his family
*Other: (Optional) he fears that he will turn into his father one day, that his makeshift family will make him leave once he becomes a legal adult, that someone will overhear him singing and playing his guitar and make fun of him