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Player Information
Name: Crystal
Email: hopeguidesme [at] mac [dot] com
AIM SN: hope31516
Other contact information: (Optional.)
Character Information
IJ Username: christiandude
Link to the public info page: http://christiandude.insanejournal.com/356.html?mode=reply
Name: James “Adam” Phillips
Age: 17
Birthdate: August 2, 1993
Location: Atlanta, GA
Occupation: High School Student
Class: Middle Class
Reincarnation: Echo
Link to source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28mythology%29
Abilities: When he begins to tell a story, no matter how simple, people feel as though they should listen. They can resist, of course, but it is not exactly easy.
Personal History:
Adam was, to put it nicely, a surprise.
[father] and [mother] met at the young age of sixteen. At the time, they were both utterly convinced that it was love at first sight, and they rushed headlong into a whirlwind relationship. A year later, [mother] found out that she was pregnant. The couple had already broken up when this news came out, but their parents urged them to get married. Both [father] and [mother] are very religious people. They haven’t been “in love” since they were kids, but they refuse to end their marriage.
Most of the time, [father] and [mother] put on a good show. They appear to be a loving, happy couple. In private, though, it is not uncommon for them to snap at one another.
Though his parents have trouble getting along with one another, Adam has never lacked for attention or affection; both of his parents love him very much.
Adam has been going to church since the day he was born. He was ten years old when he accepted Christ as his personal Savior. His religion is very important to him. So important, in fact, that he will not miss a church service for anything in the world. (This is partially due to the fact that he plays the drums in the church band. They’re counting on him to be there. He can’t let them down.)
Save for the fact that his parents bicker nearly all the time, Adam has had an uneventful childhood. At the age of six, his younger cousin accidentally hit him in the head with a golf club. It took six stitches to close the wound, but he healed rather quickly. At the age of thirteen, he fell out of a tree and bruised his kidney. He peed blood for a week after the accident, but he wasn’t out of commission for very long.
Adam wasn’t an athletic child. That changed when he started middle school, though. He played football during his sixth grade year. The following year, he amped it up and played both football and basketball. When he finally transitioned to high school, he had also added track to his list of extracurricular activities.
Though the coaches love his drive and determination, they are merely tolerant of his refusal to play or practice when he has a church function that he needs to attend. A few have gone so far as to try to convince him that his eternal soul will not be damned if he misses a few church services during the season, but he shrugs it off. His faith is much more important than any game he could play.
He wants to be a youth pastor when he gets older, but he isn’t sure that the Lord is leading him in that direction. He often prays that God will show him what he needs to do with his life.
Personality:
If Adam were to describe himself, the first trait he would list is his religion. He is a Christian. He is not what some would consider a Sunday Christian. Adam is a Christian every day of the week. Which means that he doesn’t only acknowledge his religion when he’s supposed to be in church. It is always at the forefront of his mind.
In addition to being the quintessential good boy that follows all the rules, he’s an athlete. He plays football and basketball. He runs track. He plays baseball. There isn’t a sport he doesn’t enjoy. Some would say that it is his passion, but his athletics take a backseat to his religion. If he has to choose between a game or church, he always choose church. After all, sports are not going to get him into Heaven.
Adam is driven and determined. There is very little he can’t accomplish if he really sets his mind to it.
He is smart. The school invited him to join the GATE Program when he was in the third grade. Rather than making the decision for him, his parents let him decide. It was a no-brainer to him. When you were in the GATE Program, you got to do a lot of cool stuff. Sure, you had a lot more work than the other kids, but the perks definitely evened it out. (For example, the summer following his sixth grade year, the kids in the GATE Program went on a field trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To this day, his eyes light up when he talks about what all they did there.) He’s quite studious, but not to the point of being boring.
Adam is a people pleaser. He wants to make his friends and family happy, and he’ll stop at nothing to accomplish that. In the past, that desire has lead to him being used, but he doesn’t let that bother him.
To him, there is nothing more important than his religion. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to have fun, though. He is the type of Christian that believes his relationship with God makes his life more exciting instead of less.
Physical Description:
Adam has shaggy brown hair and blue eyes. Most of his family and friends will insist that he grew a foot over the summer, but it was only a couple of inches. Without shoes, he stands at 5’10¼”. He knows this because his mother, embarrassingly enough, still measures him against the door frame in the kitchen. He was a little chunky when he was a kid, but he hasn’t had to worry about his weight since he started playing sports in middle school. Like most teenage boys, he prefers the comfort of blue jeans and t-shirts. He cleans up quite nicely, though.
Preferred Body Model: Cameron Bright
Example Images: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Example Narrative:
“Stove Top.”
“Au Gratin potatoes.”
“I want Stove Top.”
“I don’t like Stove Top. I want Au Gratin potatoes.”
“You’ve eaten Stove Top before.”
“That doesn’t mean I like it.”
Adam watched in silence as his parents turned into bickering children. They had been this way his whole life, but he’d spent enough time with other families to know that this wasn’t normal. His friends’ parents didn’t fight nearly as much as his did. They occasionally bickered, but they never fought...
“How about we have mashed potatoes?” he suggested, hoping it would end the argument before it turned into something more. “I’ll even make them.”
His mother whirled around when he interrupted. Annoyance was painted on her features. It melted away when her eyes met with his, though.
“That would be great, sweetie,” she told him.
“That sounds good to me,” his father answered.
Sometimes, Adam felt like he was the parent and they were the children. It was annoying, but he loved his parents and wouldn’t trade them for the world.
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