Still major WIP in terms of editing and formatting, but here's the first complete draft. [hider=Dane Donald][img]https://i.imgur.com/itkjZSZ.png[/img][h1][color=gray][center]Dane Donald[/center][/color][/h1][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5zUivYM.png[/img] [b]20. Male. Currently ignoring his gayness. Hopelessly single as a result. ๐™ท๐š˜๐š—๐šŽ๐šข๐šŒ๐š˜๐š–๐š‹ ๐™ป๐šŠ๐š—๐šŽ ๐š๐šŽ๐šœ๐š’๐š๐šŽ๐š—๐š.[/b][/center] [quote]โ€Thereโ€™s no such thing as fresh start. Your whole life is just a series of starts, and none of them are fresh.โ€ [sub][i]- From his deviantART when he was 13[/i][/sub][/quote] [img]https://i.imgur.com/itkjZSZ.png[/img][h2]Problem solver. Engineering major.[/h2] Some people say that you should become an engineer if you want to improve peoplesโ€™ lives. Really, why else would you dedicate your whole life to fixing shit if not to help people? Well, for Dane, itโ€™s not quite an altruism thing as much as it isโ€ฆ just a thing. Maybe he finds a strange satisfaction in being able to control things on a grander scale. Maybe he just has a desperate need to change the world somehow. Itโ€™s probably not that deep, though-- Daneโ€™s just the kind of guy that always needs to be doing something. Standing still is aggravating to him; the silence at the dinner table is infuriating. Heโ€™s the friend who tells you to break up with your shitty boyfriend, and then you get angry at him for a couple weeks before realizing he was right all along. Dane is pretty good at school. Not that heโ€™s particularly booksmart, nor was he ever very popular, but he is specifically good at doing what the teachers want. Always the first done, always getting generically good grades. He never saw classes as an opportunity to learn. Instead, everything is always just a problem to solve. An obstacle in the way to some idealized future he has in mind. Whether this is really a good or bad thing is up for debate, but either way, Dane was a leader who had a passion for power. Oh, he works out by the way. Low-key jacked. Itโ€™s a personal satisfaction thing. Really, he couldnโ€™t care less what others thought of his appearance. Itโ€™s just that exercising complete control over his body is soโ€ฆ satisfying, yโ€™know? Perfectly cut nails. Flawless teeth. Itโ€™s a bit creepy, to be honest, but nobody has told him that yet. Random hobbies include: meticulously planning the perfect meals, judging people on Yahoo Answers, and watching those weird โ€œtop ten worst investmentsโ€ kind of videos on Youtube. [h2]Controlling. Neurotic.[/h2] Dane joined hockey way back in elementary school. His father was a hockey player, so it was only natural that his first-born son would follow in his footsteps. Hell, Dane was a natural. It went great, at least up โ€˜till highschool. He ended up the team captain and everybody started hating him for it. What kind of team leader starts a fist fight with his own damn teammate? Every mistake his team made was like a personal insult to Dane, to his leadership skills. Ultimately, it culminated in him getting kicked off the team for repeated unsportsmanlike conduct on the ice. Suffice to say, he wasnโ€™t very popular at all. Itโ€™s a shame too, โ€˜cause he was a damn good captain when he wasnโ€™t being insufferable. They say you shouldnโ€™t dwell on things like these. After all, the past is the past and the only thing you can change is the future. Dane, however, seriously holds grudges. The boy has great memory and he uses it to be kind of an asshole about bad things that happen, even if heโ€™s at fault. One might call him obsessive, maybe neurotic... maybe just petty. The whole hockey thing definitely did not sit well with him and heโ€™s still weirdly convinced he was totally in the right despite it being literally all his fault for acting like that. Itโ€™s clear in his eyes when he watches his younger sister play hockey-- a bittersweet pleasure in watching his own blood on the ice. Yeah, he could just join varsity hockey at the uni he goes to, but deep down he knows heโ€™d just repeat his past mistakes. It really sucks to be self-aware enough to know whatโ€™s wrong with you but not enough to really address it. The facade of being okay makes the feeling of self-contempt go away, though. Repression and all that. Hearing all this, you might be surprised to hear that he smokes. Ironic, isnโ€™t it? Hereโ€™s a bright young man with big future plans, who takes perfect care of his body, and heโ€™s inducing lung cancer down the road. Perhaps thereโ€™s just a strange comfort to find in telling yourself โ€˜fuck youโ€™ like that. [img]https://i.imgur.com/itkjZSZ.png[/img] [center][h3]Loraine Donald โ€ข Mother[/h3]Well, he definitely takes after his mother more. They understand each other pretty well and Dane often tries to emulate her, vices and all. Being her first-born definitely helped forge that bond, too. Thereโ€™s a reason thereโ€™s a lot more baby photos of Dane than there is for the other kids.[/center] [center][h3]Aaron Donald โ€ข Father[/h3]Saying heโ€™s kind of annoying sometimes would be rude. Saying heโ€™s not would be a little dishonest. Dane finds the chain of command to be frustrating too, but he canโ€™t help but acknowledge that his father definitely loves his kids. Heโ€™s nice enough. They have a thing about bonding over hockey, but ever since Dane acted like a dumbass and got kicked off the team, itโ€™s been a bit of a touchy topic.[/center] [center][h3]๐™ต๐šŠ๐š–๐š’๐š•๐šข ๐™ผ๐šŽ๐š–๐š‹๐šŽ๐š› ๐™ฝ๐šŠ๐š–๐šŽ โ€ข ๐šƒ๐š’๐š๐š•๐šŽ[/h3]wip[/center] [center][h3]๐™ต๐šŠ๐š–๐š’๐š•๐šข ๐™ผ๐šŽ๐š–๐š‹๐šŽ๐š› ๐™ฝ๐šŠ๐š–๐šŽ โ€ข ๐šƒ๐š’๐š๐š•๐šŽ[/h3]wip[/center] [center][h3]Julia Donald โ€ข Littlest Sister[/h3]Though he hates how reserved and fearful she tends to be, Dane feels a strong Urge To Protect. The age difference makes it hard to truly get along, since heโ€™s not exactly partial to doing whatever a nine-year-old girl likes to do, but in the end their relationship is benign at worst. He does what he has to do as her older brother.[/center][/hider]