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[centre]Name: Mathias "Mat" Perreault
Age: 24
Gender: Biologically male and identifies as such
Sexuality: Homosexual
Occupation: Record Store Clerk
Apartment Description: A simple one bedroom, one bathroom apartment on the 5th floor of an Avenue C apartment building. It came with a kitchen that Mat has fully stocked with instant noodles. A simple living room that Mat has furnished with a television, a record player, hundreds of imported bootleg art films on tape, quite a few records, various posters adorning the walls, and a terrible couch that would be put out to pasture if Mat could afford a new one.
Personality: Mat is what some would consider a broke socialite, he loves attending parties and meeting new people. He thinks of himself as a happy person, even when he's incredibly anxious on whether or not he'll be able to get his rent in on time and in private he's panicking like there's no tomorrow, he still tries to keep himself composed and upbeat when around others. He likes to help others, always able to lend out his couch to even complete strangers

With that said, he is incredibly stubborn, not wanting anyone to help him unless it's an absolute necessity. This is to his detriment as even if he is in dire straits and probably will be kicked out on the street, he'd rather freeze to death than ask for someone to help him with the rent.

History: Mat grew up in Toronto, Canada to a middle class French speaking family. From a young age he wanted to be a filmmaker, he idolized the classics of Kurosawa, Kubrick, and Scorcese, and he always wanted to be like them and make films that everyone would be talking about, even years after they've already come out. After high school he studied film at Ryerson University in Toronto. It was then when he saw Richard Linklater's [i]Slacker[/i] that he knew the kind of films he wanted to make. He wanted to capture life, and the people who lived it, and what better way to do that than moving to where all life seemed to be taking place, New York City.

After graduation he packed his bags and made his way impulsively to the East Village with only a few hundred dollars to his name. He found residency in the first apartment he could get moved into. He realized that he couldn't survive here without some kind of job to keep him going so he decided he'd do something he was interested in, then he realized the video store wasn't hiring, so he decided to do something he was less interested in but still seemed like a good way to meet intriguing people and wouldn't get bored with, which was working at a record store. The job has been keeping him steady while he's tried to get his film projects off the ground, but as of yet it's mostly just a collection of footage that still needs to be pieced together to give it any kind of cohesive structure.[/centre]