[hider=Philip Howard: "P.H., The Musical"] [CENTER] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/RWS_Tarot_00_Fool.jpg/220px-RWS_Tarot_00_Fool.jpg [/IMG][/CENTER] [B]Age:[/b] 25 [B]Gender:[/b] Male [B]Ethnicity/Nationality:[/b] African American, other stuff probably [B]Physical Description:[/b] [INDENT][center] [hider=Reference image][img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltqclvSmlJ1r0xk1po1_500.jpg[/img][/hider] [hider=Music: “Kick Some Ass” by Stroke 9] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIeOUe6BCFs[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] Get ready for racist, purple prose skin tone similes. Creamy coffee? Wet sand? Hispanic colored? In any case, Philip is in-between enough to be both discriminated against by everyone but tolerated everywhere. He’s the type of unathletic lanky that no guy wants to be, torso resembling more of a prepubescent boy's than that of a man. He’s good-looking though, with squinty eyes (does he have some asian blood or does he just need glasses?) and full lips. He’s got a wild mane of hair that would be cooler if his mom wasn’t the one still doing his twists for him. His jerky movements and obsequious fumbling, bumbling lack of self-confidence is usually enough to undo any kind of attraction a girl might initially feel for him when he’s standing still with his mouth shut. He wears funky, geeky clothes that are sometimes accidentally groovy, but for the most part he just doesn’t know how to hide his freak flag. [/INDENT] [B]Skillset:[/b] [INDENT] [center] [hider=Music: “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENM2wA_FTg[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] - Played basketball for awhile. He wasn’t terrible shockingly, but little evidence of it sticks. - He studied hard in school. He worked part-time as a tutor. This is the most interaction with cute girls he’s ever had, and he was never brave enough to make a move. But, he IS good at waiting around like a lost puppy and hoping you’ll notice him. It hasn’t worked yet. - Geeky. He can probably beat that level of Zelda that you are stuck on. - Philip is smart and observant. Though it doesn’t look like it, while he’s sketching anime chicks, he is also reading the room. - Despite how painfully awkward he is, Philip is actually pretty great with people once they get used to his strange mannerisms. He’s a good, caring friend. If anything, he takes too much shit and doesn’t stand up for himself, but the plus side of this is that he’s selfless and quick to forgive. He likes and accepts everyone; he is not judgmental. - There’s a tiny little seed inside him of bravery that longs for adventure and may even believe he’s capable of being the hero. He wants to be. - Unaware as he is, he’s lived his life with a great amount of dignity and graciousness. He’s been quietly tenacious, but he downplays his struggles and lives with gratitude for what he has. [/INDENT] [B]History:[/b] [INDENT] [center] [hider=Music: “Her Name Is Alice” by Shinedown] Warning: very gory video [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxv1Q8YZdA4[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] Philip was raised in a polarized family. His mother was an educated career woman, and his father was a truck driver. Philip found it difficult to navigate both cultures, both circles of people, in a world already divided into white and not white. He receded into eccentricity, and found specifically that video games provided a genre not centered around the color of his skin, not one he ever had to change himself to fit into. Around the black people he knows, he is “not black enough,” either by skin or by personality, and around the white people he knows, he is “the black friend.” [center] [hider=Music: “Cathedrals” by Jump Little Children] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxTFN32DIk[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] He was raised religious, attending a progressive black church. He became fascinated with theological studies and religious practices, and after graduating from homeschooled high school early, he attended a community college for two years before going on to seminary. He is torn between the desire to major in theology in a studious manner and yet be as close to the crazy natives themselves as possible. Their beliefs make him uncomfortable, but he is fascinated by the wild extremes of behavior to which spiritual people will go. He is also pretty stunned by some of the things he has seen. They change his scientific beliefs not one iota, but he knows that there is some shit he can’t explain in the world, both beautiful and ugly. [/INDENT] [B]Psychological Profile:[/b] [INDENT] [center] [hider=Music: “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheetus] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] Philip is driven to understand people, and even more so, to understand what they believe and why they believe it. He is an anthropologist, without much desire to fit in himself. Nevertheless, he wants people to be comfortable, but as he is rarely comfortable himself, he has only the vaguest idea how to make that happen. Don’t even get him started about girls, around whom he has no idea how to act. Though he does not realize it, the fact that he is an oddball by anyone’s standards is what makes him both normalize and study weird behavior. (Some inspiration for this character: Vardy from [i]Kraken[/i], the career occult expert. It's also not an accident that Philip's name is H.P. (Howard Philip) Lovecraft's, reversed.) [/INDENT] [/hider] Is this racist enough? I think I hit everyone in it, some way shape or form. xD