Hello, I'm not sure this is accepting or not but I figured I'd fill out an application and hope I hear back, you know, like a job interview or something. Anyway sorry it's not super pretty, I'm bad with that stuff. Okay thank you. 


[hider=Mason Coburn][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/190709/da186b10e24cd4133e4522df8a1a027d.png[/img] 
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[quote][i]"Mason, Mason, Mason, what's there to say about Mason that he hasn't already heard - or assumed. Every class needs its clown and Mason got the part before anyone else could. Everyone liked Mason but no one really considered them his friend. He brightened up any boring class even for just a little while until the teachers wised up. I know he's made me laugh more times than I can count. Maybe that was his defense. Maybe he thought if people were laughing [b]with[/b] him they wouldn't be laughing [b]at[/b] him. But then, the laughing stopped when he spent junior prom sitting alone. I think that night was when he decided to get away...but with the shape he was in at the time...I guess Gatling was as far as he could make it."[/i][/quote]
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[b]Nicknames:[/b] Chief 
[b]Age:[/b] 28
[b]Gender:[/b] Male 
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Who's Askin' 
[b]Relationship Status:[/b] Single
[b]Occupation:[/b] Deputy Sheriff

Likes:
[list][*]Adam Sandler movies
[*]The Dallas Cowboys
[*]Extra strips of bacon, even though he shouldn't[/list]

Dislikes:
[list][*]Onion bagels
[*]Mischief during curfew hours
[*]The culture of political correctness that got him sensitivity training[/list]

Hobbies:
[list][*]Drinking a beer after work, preferably during football season
[*]Manning the grill so he can add just a bit of char to his dogs
[*]One night stands[/list]

Fears: 
That one day, despite his claims otherwise, people will call for his resignation on the grounds that he's a bigot or sexist. That he might discharge his gun and knowing his luck he'd accidentally hit a colored boy. Going back to how he was in high school. 

Dreams: 
To retire early with an honorable discharge, like taking a bullet in the line of duty and being rewarded for heroism. Finding something more fulfilling than drunk single mothers for single nights of fun. 

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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyf0ZIh3SVo][b]Someone told me long ago..there's a calm before the storm...[/b][/url]
In hindsight, it's a wonder Mason came out as relatively well adjusted as he did given that his home life was the closest thing to a waking nightmare between a father who hated him and belittled him at any opportunity and a lack of any maternal figure other than an occasional loose woman passing through town on the way to her next mistake. But of course that's getting slightly ahead of things. Mason's father, Colton, married young and married foolish, but in those days it was practically expected. Sweethearts without a clue for the future but a firm belief in the power of love. Out of all the lovefools of the time, Colton and Maribel stood a good chance of making it. Maribel was a teacher, and Colton's father owned a car dealership that Colton would inherit once he graduated from lowly salesman. With their life seeming bright, the conversation of children didn't come up until they had been married for twelve years. They weren't in their twenties anymore but it was never too late to start a family, especially when it was put on hold in the first place to focus instead on building a life.

They tried. They tried more than most, but that could well have just been a genuine sex drive. They tried and tried until it bore fruit. Come childbirth, Maribel tried and tried and tried, she pushed and pushed where doctors said a cesarian section was on the table. Though Mason was born, Colton might have thought that Maribel tried too hard. One life born for one life taken. Mason was born, Maribel passed on, and Colton could only see one person responsible: an unusually heavy baby who he was now stuck with. 

Mason knew that he wasn't like many other kids as soon as he went from the organized chaos of early grade school to middle school when he had to wear clothes from a specialty store, something that his father resented because of the higher price tag. When Mason entered high school he struggled not from the academics but from having to walk up and down stairs and squeeze into seats with desks attached, desks that poked into his gut and made it harder for him to do any work.  

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6gcxNFc1I0][b]We gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever do..[/b][/url]
Mason figured out pretty early that he likely wouldn't be one of the popular people at Gatling West just because of the simple fact that few people spared time for the fat kid in class so he figured out fairly early on that if he wanted to have people know him by his name and rather than just 'the fat kid' that he would have to be funny. They say that the best comedians come from broken lives or dark places and for Mason it didn't get much darker than coming home every day for as long as he could remember to a father two beers deep going on about what a fat pile of useless shit Mason was - and that was on the days where Colton wasn't calling his son a queer in far less 'acceptable' terms or hounding how no girl would want someone like him. The more Colton berated Mason the more Mason retreated to his room and sought solace in sodas, snacks, and funny movies. 

At school Mason made it a point to make people laugh with jokes or comments or a bit of physical humor and he managed to convince himself that everyone who laughed was being genuine and that they were his friends. Yet when the weekend came most times he found himself at home or 'coincidentally' running into people at the theater or at the high school football games and even then he sat away from them. They were on dates or hanging out and he wasn't invited..it would've been rude to intrude. To say that he enjoyed high school would be a lie. Even if no one made fun of him to his face and even if he felt generally accepted during class hours, he couldn't exactly say he had a lot of great memories especially compared to those who had sweethearts and dates and the typical high school experience. The only one who was there for him at graduation was the principal. 

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8pC2Mz-18][b]When rain drops fall and you feel low...Ah, do you ever think it's useless..Do you feel like letting go[/b][/url]
After high school, Mason knew two things: He had to leave Gatling and he had to never come back. The unfortunate reality is that he was unable to leave but the good news was that he was able to change. With many of his graduating classmates leaving or pursuing dreams, Mason pursued a different course: self-improvement. He went to a doctor, saw a nutritionist, worked a crappy gas station job to afford a personal trainer and gym membership. He was amazed at what an almost immediate difference it was reducing portion sizes and cutting out soda - though that was the hard part; at worst he had a four can a day habit. After a year he went down a pant size. After three he couldn't even be called fat. After five he was getting abs. Ten years on he doubts anyone who hadn't known him in the time of change would recognize him now, and not just because of his weight loss. 

Mason didn't want to inherit the car dealership and even if he did he doubted his father would leave it to him anyway. Mason was rather listless and had no real career plan other than 'something where I can move out of my dad's place and never look back'. This brought him to a job fair and to a career in law enforcement with the Gatling Sheriff's Department. He serves under the Sheriff as the deputy, a position that affords him a fair bit of respect which was a concept foreign to him but something he's grown to quite like. 

He's got his own place now, a small little ranch house that's too big for him alone but he appreciates the comfort of a la-z boy and a cold beer after work even though it reminds him of how his father liked to spend his nights. His shift in physical appearance also came with some other benefits; much like his father Mason became a regular patron at the one night stand cafe. But more importantly, he's earned a bit of a good reputation with the community - a few foibles and 'insensitive' language aside. He's not overly hard assed and understands that 'boys will be boys' so while he won't buy booze for the youth, he won't really crack down super hard on parties unless they give him a reason to. 

Though he wouldn't have considered himself one of Roxanne's deepest friends, as a law enforcement officer he was still affected by her death. As grim as it sounds, maybe her death and the reunion of familiar faces that came with it could be what Mason needs to feel more...whole.
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[sub]Josh Holloway, Lost (a coincidence I swear), and [color=374F6B]374F6B[/color][/sub][/center][/hider]

[hider=Harper Ownbey][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/190709/2514a1e06f017cc33cfc1966707ea377.png[/img]
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[quote][i]"For some it was hard not to get swept up in Harper's entire being, she had that way about her...that certain something that made her almost irresistible. It wasn't just that she was a cheerleader and it wasn't just the rumors that she was a bit hands-on with the football team...but those didn't exactly hurt her otherwise sterling reputation. Personally? I liked her energy, I liked the way she never saw the downside in anything, and I liked the way she could talk her way out of trouble for us. The funny thing was it was often her who talked people into [b]getting[/b] into trouble in the first place."[/i][/quote]
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[b]Nicknames:[/b] Trouble 
[b]Age:[/b] 29
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Flexible
[b]Relationship Status:[/b] Single
[b]Occupation:[/b] Sports Agent

Likes:
[list][*]Driving with the top down during a nice evening breeze
[*]Fancy seafood or a nice grilled salmon
[*]Mojitos at happy hour[/list]

Dislikes:
[list][*]Smoking and smokers 
[*]East coast lawyers
[*]Country music. She left Texas for a reason.[/list]

Hobbies:
[list][*]Driving fast. Sometimes fast enough to get the law involved.
[*]Swimming
[*]Traveling, nationally or otherwise[/list]

Fears: 
Her live fast lifestyle backfiring and putting her in some serious hot water legally or ethically or morally.  

Dreams: 
Being a top name at her agency, if not starting her own and repping Tom Brady level talents. 

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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhb-kNvL6M][b]Well she was an American girl...raised on promises...[/b][/url]
Even from a young age Harper was learning how to get what she wanted but in the young days it was more innocent than anything else; after all she had three older brothers, two of which were twins, and she had to constantly compete for attention from her parents. When she was a young girl that was as easy as existing, but once the twins started peewee football and the oldest son little league, suddenly Harper had to improvise. Fortunately enough she soon learned that her parents would believe the rambunctious athletic boys of the family would roughhouse and break a few things or would want to sneak some cookies from the jar for energy. There was never a stolen cookie or broken bit of furniture that Harper was responsible for that she couldn't shift the blame.

Her father coached peewee football AND little league in his spare time from his normal job as the owner of a corner store, the same store that Harper's brothers worked at when they turned thirteen, and her mother knew the names and faces of most everyone in Gatling thanks to her being a stylist - oh how the gossip flowed, often it was about Harper's mother and the fact that someone could have four children and still look good if a bit...plastic. While her brothers did tend to roughhouse inbetween stints on the field, Harper was relegated to the sidelines, serving water or fruit punch and enduring the cheers of football moms. At least she still got to go to the pizza parties after a victory. It was when she started trading pizza slices with others, finding ways to get bigger or more slices in exchange for hers, that she started figuring that people could be...well...convinced of things.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHC8vuBU9rg][b]In 20 minutes everyone will remember you when you're gone...don't you know people write songs about girls like you...[/b][/url]
Growing up with such a sports forward family it was no surprise when the twins, Ray and Lee, made the Garrison and her oldest brother, Harris, made the baseball team. Harper followed suite in her own way, not joining a girls sports team but the cheerleading squad. She wasn't the best at the routine and wasn't the most flexible or coordinated but none could deny that she knew how to project her voice. By sophomore year she managed to get onto the varsity squad thanks in no small part to her love of pep rallies. It's not clear when she started getting into trouble but it was after she made varsity cheerleader and shortly after a post-game party where she got three members of the team to fight ostensibly for her but really for her own amusement. 

It elevated from there, with Harper getting people to help her with homework by practically making them do the homework for her, or seeing how far she could push people before they started pushing back. It was almost a surprise that she didn't give a valedictorian speech at graduation simply because of her knack for talking people into stupid ideas - such as letting a B-Average student give a speech instead of the one who actually deserved it. There wasn't a party Harper didn't miss and though she wasn't a loner in school she did have a bit of a reputation in the 'this girl will probably fuck you up but it might be worth it' kind of way. It's no surprise she had her friends, admirers, and people who would've given anything to see her on the bad end of a lecture or humiliation. And yet she had no problem leaving all of them behind come college to move out west. 

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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8UbnYqSFE][b]Staying out late, gonna get drunk..Take me to the reckless halo and sip me up a drink...Swing me hips like a cowgirl...Oh, put them shooters up[/b][/url]
The real world outside of a small Texas town doesn't quite work the way she assumed, in that she actually had to make something of an effort when it came to higher education. Either that or people on the west coast weren't easily swayed by honeyed words, a pretty face, and promises of something for nothing. Fortunately for Harper, she managed to find her way to one of the career paths where bullshit gets money: that of a sports agent. Landing a job at a fairly decent firm, she earned her position by helping the Twins get signed to the NFL though she chose not to represent them since she couldn't play bias with family members. Her cutthroat style of negotiation has made her a valuable asset in the job as she is able to keep her head when dealing with networks and companies while putting forth deals that offer a bit too much money but somehow seem like the right idea for all parties involved. Harper quite likes the job except for when she has to play damage control for some of her clients as well as the agency's - something about athletes makes them predisposed to NOT following the scripted apology which is insane since fake apologies to dodge consequence and apology is Harper's greatest asset. 

Harper never had any desire to go back to Gatling, there was nothing there for her other than her parents and they were just a voice chat away if she ever got homesick. The Twins were busy with the NFL, Harris didn't go pro and worked at a car dealer which was far too depressing for Harper to ever think about so the only thing waiting for her in Texas was country music and a lot of wood panel. But of course life has a way of crapping on plans and a tragic loss of life drew her back. She might not have been besties with Roxy but they flew in similar circles so it would've been weird if she didn't show. 

Unlike everyone else she knew, she has a life to get back to, however. She assumes everyone else never made it out of Gatling alive. Clearly.

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[sub]Emily Blunt. [color=FF030D]FF030D[/color][/sub][/center][/hider]