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{Full Name}
{ Matthias B. Riley }
{Nickname}
{ Matt (common) }
{Age}
{ 18 }
{Gender}
{ Male }
{Sexuality}
{ Heterosexual }
{Role}
{ The Bad Boy }
{Likes}
β Tv β Animals β The Perfect Daughter β Hanging Out
β Partying β Skipping School β The Movie Theatre β Parks
β Video Games β Anywhere but Home.
{Dislikes}
X Fighting X Confinement X Laws X His Step-Father
X Hot Weather X Prudes X Dangerous Situations X School
X His Home
{Strengths}
* {Fighting} "Its not something to be proud of, but I know how to throw a punch."
* {Streetwise} "I've been running long enough to know the ins and outs."
* {Quick} "I never do things slowly, for better or for worse."
* {Brave} "I don't back down from a challenge or problem."
{Weaknesses||Fears}
{ The Perfect Daughter } "I can't get her out of my head...'
{ Habits } "They'll never stop dragging me back."
{ Parties } "Nothing good ever comes from a party."
{ Alcohol } "My biggest vice, no matter how much I try and convince myself otherwise."
{ His Friend } "Some of them are good people...most of them are bad."
{ Dying } "Without a doubt, my greatest fear."
{ Watching A Loved One Die } "No fear is irrational....that's what they tried to tell me."
{Appearance}
{Matthias has always been a tall and gangly kid, but it wasn't until recently that he began to fill out and lost the soft features of his childhood. Baby fat turning into muscle, and soft facial features turning sharp and pointed. He gets a lot of his features from his father, including his height of 6'2" and general shape. He is still rather skinny though, his medium frame filled out with about 134lbs. Leaving plenty of room to grow more. As for his general coloring, he gets a lot of it from his mother. They have the same fair, unblemished skin. Same dark, searching eyes. And the same dirty blonde hair that goes from dark to light depending on the lighting and whether or not its had a wash recently.
He prefers a simple style, lots of solid color t-shirts (or plaid) regular jeans, and sneakers. He almost never dresses up, or wears suits or anything like that. He prefers comfortable, loose clothing and is never caught dead wearing much else. Even though he doesn't spend too much time working on his appearance he does keep up with hygiene. One could even say he is obsessed with cleanliness, likely a by-product of growing up on the dirty streets.
He has a single tattoo on his left arm, a detailed scorpion, the meaning of which only he knows.}
{Personality}
{ Given the chance, Matthias can be very arrogant. He has always been rather confident in himself, perhaps overly so since it seems to have inflated his ego quite a bit. He doesn't seem to notice this about himself either, so anytime he is called out for it is a shock. while he tries to work on the bad parts of himself, he almost always lets himself fall back into bad habits. He finds that even though his childhood was shit it did lend him some good life lessons, and he knows how to treat others. Sometimes he ignores his own rules though. Particularly with women, he can be a flirt, and overly brazen. He can come on too strong sometimes, and that makes some people nervous. He also never really thought much about the feelings of the girls he would have a one night stand with. Among his group of friends it was sort of like a game to see who could womanize the most women in a certain amount of time.
Anyway, all bad things aside Matthias is a pretty normal kid. Sort of doofy at times, with a dour outlook. But a normal kid nonetheless. He is lazy, spends far too much time with video games, and thinks of himself as above the consequences. He hates school, finding it utterly boring, and only goes when there's something in it for him. He is a highly social creature, and talkative as well. He tries to be nice, and molds himself to the views of the people around him. He's very adaptable, and goes with the flow when he can.
Recently he has undergone a sort of epiphany that has shown him that he needs to change. And he is trying his hardest to be a better person all around, it just isn't that easy when those habits are always beckoning.
{History}
{ His life is a simple one, or as simple as the life of the token "bad boy" can get. He had a shit childhood, first by practically watching his father dying, and then by being helpless as his mother ran off immediately to another man. His mother went through a string of boyfriends, some nice, some not so nice. Matthias only ever remembered the not so nice ones. He was eight when she married Scott. The man invaded their home, and tore apart their lives even more. Its amazing hes still around - but that's a thing about the not so nice ones, they never leave. Even when they do. Nobody in their family was really happy, least of all their mother who was tied down by the possessive bastard. She got heavy into drugs to cope, and started sleeping around behind his back.
Anytime he would catch wind he would take it out on Matthias or Vanessa, he had no problems with hitting a kid. Which should have been reason number one for their mother to leave him. As they were growing up Matthias and Vanessa branched away from the household. Spending their times in cheap motels or crashing on friends couches. While Vanessa was content to continue school and get out of the rut, Matthias chose the lower path, sticking to what he knew - and what he knew was the streets. He ran with a bad group for a while, got in plenty of trouble. Did a stint in juvie at 13, and had to report for parole for a year after. He got picked up for truancy more times than anyone cared to deal with.
But eventually people started expecting him to skip school, or to find him messed up in some way or another. He didn't much care, and it wasn't the cry for attention that people thought it was. He just liked the thrill of doing these things. Of partying one night and waking up the next morning in strange places. The adrenaline of a fight. Or just the idea of doing whatever the hell he wanted whenever he wanted. Rarely going home since the step would have tried to teach him a lesson. It wasn't until he met {the perfect daughter} that his mind began to change on the whole goody goody thing. It still wasn't an ideal lifestyle for him, but he just couldn't get her out of his mind. And he knows that if he doesn't change he doesn't have a chance.}
{Family}
{ Naomi Riley-Carson } "My mom, a lovely women really if you can look past the glaring faults...like the drug use and sleeping around. All small things according to her. All shes doing is giving the step-bastard more ammo."
{ Scott Carson } "The Step-Bastard, as I like to call him. Hes a real piece of work, acting nice one second and pummeling us the next. We figured it out young that being anywhere near him would just cause problems. Hes a hellbeast, literally, and the worst part is he likes to act like an authority figure."
{ Vanessa Riley } "My sister, and for a long time my closest friend. She got out, and shes lucky for it. Pursuing some fancy career a few states over, I love her, but I wish she would have taken me with her."