Évariste Holmes
“Do you see the truth?”
“Do you see the truth?”
Nickname: “Pren”
Age: 17 (Jan 19)
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 146 lbs
Best At: Interrogation.
Goals: To not be defined by his father.
Likes: Challenge, Losing, Progress, Adrenaline Rushes, Fear or Pain of those he dislikes, black humor.
Dislikes: Non-challenging success, Being looked down on, Dogs, Emperors without clothes, His father.
Fears: Stagnation, Monotony, Death, Getting close to people.
Personality
Évariste used to keep a rather stoic and introverted outward personality about himself. However in recent years he has tried to adopt a bit more of a personality beyond the air of approachability created by his relation to his father. Unfortunately This first manifested itself into him being quite the selfish and overly aggressive prick. While he has calmed a bit down since those days, he still has an attitude where he absolutely refuses to fake respect or any sort of courtesy to those he feels undeserving.
Still quite the loner, he doesn't make friends as organically as most might and prefers to stick most people he meets into the “distant acquaintance” category. Though often he doesn’t even commit people he meets to memory unless they are particularly interesting. This lack of will to make friends and get close to people probably stems from his issues with his parents.
Towards what he would call his “friends”, a very select few, he holds a relative loyalty. He certainly enjoys their company and would never cross them for any reason less than his own self preservation. Though therein lies the problem, as he wouldn't sacrifice himself to save a friend. Not that he wouldn't be self confident enough to think he could save both himself and his friend. But at the end of the day he values his own survival beyond really anything else.
Toward his enemies and anyone that particularly dislikes, he pulls no punches. Specifically, he has a certain sadism where if he enjoys the suffering of those he hates. Though hate is a pretty strong emotion. For those he dislikes he wouldn’t really enjoy their suffering. Though he wouldn’t frown at their discomfort. Mostly he is an eye for an eye kind of person and the punishment must reflect the crime. Where the crime is how much somebody pisses him off.
History
Évariste was born to a well accomplished entrepreneurial detective with a “hands off” approach to parenting and a blond woman whom he has never met. He did have quite the caring fake uncle, but that didn’t much make up for the feelings of abandonment that comes naturally from a mother who skips out and a larger than life father that looks to his son more like a robot than anyone to be admired. The person he would consider his closest relative would probably be that fake uncle, who’s connection were to the boy like a oasis would be to a dehydrated man in the desert. Though because of the falling out between his father and his fake uncle, something that predated the boy’s birth, he didn’t see the one parental like figure he had as much as he probably needed and not even a scratch on the surface of how much he wanted to. Luckily, he thought later on in his life, his well to do father at least had the income to feed him and leave him wanting for little that wasn't love and affection.
So he already had something between him and most of his peers at the start of his life. So he turned a little bit introverted stuck to books and internal monolog. Which didn’t really lend itself to making friends, giving him the appearance of as approachable as his well known father. His fascination with books also led to imitation of some of the characters, considering he was a young impressionable ten year old. Which didn’t turn out well when he tried to act like Robin Hood.
Stealing a bag from a rich looking old lady to give to a downtrodden homeless man seems like an ok idea at first, especially to a child. The problem comes when the woman has a fairly large dog. In which the proposed “savior of the poor” ends up with blood dripping down from his arm onto his face. Though it gets even worse when the flight or fight instinct kicks in, and a rather intelligent child picks the latter. Because the whole event ends with a dog, blind from caved in eyes from thumbs, runs yelping out into the street and gets hit by a car. Then the lonely child with abandonment issues gets even more isolated from his peers because he has experienced killing something that someone considers their only family and feeling a strange mixture of guilt and justification. Something that would forever live within his own personal philosophy.
It wasn’t a surprise that the son of the second great Holmes detective would later attend the school his father had founded. Something that Évariste more fell into than anything else. Though his intellectual side didn’t seem to have that much of a problem. It also made it easier to stay relatively isolated since his father's reputation now applied doubly. Coasting through virtually all of his years while staying in his accustomed comfortable isolation. Being just enough of a success to not surprise anyone.
Though around the start of his second year, he moved into the dorm, away from his father. This feeling of independence gave Évariste an inflated sense of independence. So he started to act out in his own way, skipping classes, picking fights with other students whom he didn’t like. Though he never threw the first punch. His father, succeeded in covering his son’s disobedience from the reputable sources. Though it still got around the student body that the son of the principal was a bit of a prick.
Though Évariste has settled down a bit in his final year. Leaving behind most of prickery when he made a few friends after a fight with a new student. After which he and his friends made a bit of a “secret club” where they hung out by his fake uncle’s nearby pub once every week and discussed pretty much whatever was on their mind.
Somehow it didn’t surprise Évariste when his father went missing in his final year. Something Évariste figured was just a ploy to drum up press about the school.
Extras
Song: Desperado : Johnny Cash
Favorite quote: “Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tallents: Évariste is not startled by life threatening situations, in fact he is surprisingly excited by them.
Fun facts: When people ask what his name is Évariste sometimes responds saying that his name is “Pretentious”, which before he came to his father’s school and EVERYONE knew who he was, earned him the nickname Pren. Though he doesn't have as much of a problem with being called Évariste as he does Holmes. Being called by his last name gets on his nerves.
