F A C E C L A I M
( Tom Hughes )
A G E
( nineteen )
G E N D E R
( male )
B I R T H D A Y
( July 11th )
H E I R - O F
( John Lennon )
E N H A N C E D - A B I L I T Y
( Shawn has an ear for music and has been writing songs since the age of four. A prodigy child, his family have worked hard to feed this gift by exposing him to all types of music and instruments. At least that's the way everyone else see's it, to Shawn the music is one of the only ways to keep himself from going mad. Imagine your senses being bombarded by everything and everyone because you ears pick up even the mice in the walls. It was hard for him as a child but over the years he's learned to subdue being able to hear everything. )
H O M E T O W N
( Gloucester, England )
G E N E R A L
( Shawn personality can be all over the place. At times he can seem silly and goofy cracking jokes with lots of a laughter and big smiles. However in another minute something could set him off and he becomes a very angry person. His propensity to try to hide other emotions such as sadness with humor and anger often confuses people around him. It makes hard for anyone to really get close to him and actually create a lasting relationship. Now this doesn't mean he doesn't have friends, it just means they only get so close before Shawn shuts them out, by either cracking a joke or stalking off in a huff.
I guess you can say that it makes him kind of a mystery or maybe even misunderstood. The truth of it is Shawn lives hard and loves harder. When someone finds that crack in his emotional wall they find a sad lonely guy, that really hasn't grown up yet. Events in his life have made him claw and scrape to keep the people he loves the most close to him.
All around when he's in a good mood he's fun to be around, and can often be the life of the party. While other times he's quiet and happy just sitting at a piano plucking out the songs in his head. )
H O B B I E S
( Collecting Vinyl Records, Anything Music, Parties, Writing, Drawing, Taking Picturesictures of Graffiti )
S E X U A L I T Y
( Bisexual )
F A V O R I T E S
- ( Playing Guitar )
- ( Scones )
- ( Laying on a fresh cut lawn )
- ( Music from the 60's )
- ( Cats )
- ( A loud crowded party )
F A M I L Y
- ( Mother ) = ( Maureen Abbott )/ Deceased
- ( Father ) = ( Noel Abbott )/ Living
- ( Maternal Aunt ) = ( Nadine Harman )/ Living
- ( Pet ) = ( Rupert )/ Family cat
B I O G R A P H Y
( I guess we should, start with a little bit of background on Shawn's parents. His mother Maureen, was very young when health problems made it to where she could never give birth to a child of her own. This was always something that weighed heavy on her shoulders, growing up in a large family she always wanted the experience of being a mother. When she met Noel Abbott he swept her off of her feet. However Noel's intentions were completely different. He had a reputation around the neighborhood for, leaving a long list of sad girls in his wake every time he came home for shore leave from the navy. When the conversations with Maureen, turned to marriage and children she let him know of her predicament. Thinking it an easy way to get what he wanted without the risk of a child, Noel jumped at the chance to reel Maureen in and marry her. He could still follow old habits when away, and then come home to the little woman. In a whirlwind romance Maureen married Noel at the young age of nineteen. Noel soon went back to the sea leaving Maureen alone at home. She scraped by working as a waitress in a local pub while Noel traveled around the world doing God knows what. Things went on like this for several years, till once when Noel was home, she begged him to consider adoption. Noel was uneasy with the idea at first, however after some time and a bit of consideration. He decided to go along with it, finding an agency that was reasonably priced and with a baby just in. There was little to no info on the boy's background, just a name, but this didn't detour Maureen she took one look at Shawn and fell in love.
Noel went on with his career in the navy, and Maureen doted over beautiful son. Shawn's early life revolved around Maureen and he loved her desperately. Family complained that Maureen just spoiled him. She didn't care she was finally able to be the mother she always wanted to be. Her older sister Nadine was a big help especially when she had to work late hours at the pub. Nadine loved her nephew, but found him to be a bit of a brat. She tried to install good traits in Shawn, and discipline in some sort of way but it always seemed like she couldn't keep his attention longer than a few seconds. He was a handful to say the least, Nadine always commented that he was the most complicated child she had ever seen. However there was something she did notice that she found interesting, the toddler would sit in the middle of the kitchen floor as she played her old albums on the turntable she'd had since she was a teenager. Shawn would bounce up and down on his knees in tune with the beat of any song she played. Often she and Maureen would sit at the kitchen table giggling at his diapered bottom move up and down on the floor. In Nadine's opinion it was the only time she didn't feel like yanking her hair out.
That's when it all started of course it went from bouncing in time to, copying the songs on the piano in the foyer, then to making up his own songs. Now granted this was something little children do all the time, sing about toilet routines. No not silly little songs, that made no sense and had no rhythm in particular, these where well thought out and despite the juvenile themes they made perfect sense. They had a rhythm, notes to them, a four year old writing songs on your piano is something to stand in awe of. Maureen spoke to Noel about it he shrugged it off, and acted jealous that she was paying more attention to the kid then himself. Things began to become rocky, well if you ever believed that a marriage like theirs was ever stable. Maureen filed for divorce and they were separated by the time Shawn was five. Maureen of course took full custody and concentrated on encouraging Shawn's gifts. By the time Shawn was twelve he could play the piano with proficiency, had just started playing the guitar after practically mastering the violin. It seemed like whatever instrument he got his hands on he excelled at. Learning and mastering them with mind blowing quickness. Shawn however didn't do as good academically, his regular teacher's complained about his attitude, and lack of attention. Often claiming he didn't need school because he was going to be a famous musician. By all intensive purposes, he was right but Maureen did her best to encourage his academic schooling as well. Shawn not wanting to disappoint her tried to do his best.
Unfortunately not long after Shawn turned thirteen tragedy struck, that turned Shawn's world upside down. Maureen was driving home from her job at the pub late one night and was hit head on by a drunk driver. Three weeks later... she was gone, at first he was sent to live with his father Noel who had long since remarried and started a new family. The brilliant, talented Shawn was not welcome and Noel made sure Shawn knew it. It only took a few weeks of dirty looks, fights, and being suspended from school for Shawn to beg his aunt Nadine to take him in. Not wanting to see her nephew grow up being mistreated she said yes. In years since Shawn quit school in his 11th year and began to concentrate on his music especially. Nadine wasn't happy about it but with him on the verge of eighteen she felt she didn't have much to say in the matter. Shawn admits he hated disappointing his aunt like that. Even though he was a screw up at times in his own opinion he cared for her. She did the best she could to raise him up to be a decent human being in the absence of his own parents. She was the one that tried to comfort him in the hardest and saddest times in his life. But he had this need to break free and to take a chance, to do what he'd been telling everyone for years a nd be a famous musician. )
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Significant Other
- NA
Friends - NA
Colleagues - NA
Other - NA
O C C U P A T I O N
( Dish washer by day/ Musician by night )
S P E A K S
( English/ a little German )
W E A P O N
( Does a pocket knife in his boot count? )