[hider=Abel Connell] [center][h1][b]Abel Connell[/b][/h1] [h1]╚══════════════╝[/h1] [i]"I had hoped for more in life. I just never imagined it would be this."[/i] [h3][ [b]Age: 32[/b] | [b]Height: 6”2[/b] | [b]Ethnicity: Caucasian/Hispanic Mix[/b] | [b]Pronouns: He/Him[/b] | [b]Weight: 210[/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Failure][/i][/h1][/center] [h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Abel Connell is compact, clean cut, with well groomed features and short dark brown hair. When he’s interacting with a customer he has a smile and a way that can light up a room. When it’s just him though, when few people are in sight, he shrinks. The graceful slouch most tall people have is more prominent. He’s quieter, smaller as if he crumples into himself. His green eyes don’t shine as brightly, as if the person behind the wheel has given up on driving the car. He has a scar on his right leg left from a breakage when he was in highschool. Most days you’d never notice, but when it’s cold or he has to exert himself he walks with a slight limp. Even with the limp he has an athletic build from working out at home. At work he wears a clean pressed two piece suite, modern cut. Outside of work he wears a Corduroy jacket, jeans and shirt."[/i] [h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"It is not failure itself that holds you back; It is the fear of failure that paralyzes you."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b] Do something with his life. [b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b] Do something that easy and you’ll never work a day in your life. [b]SECRETS ⫻[/b] In High School he was a member of the school football team. He was good at it. Even has prospects of going pro, until a car accident left him with a broken right leg. He never told anyone that deep down he was happy about it. It meant all the pressure to succeed was no longer his. [b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b] Hetrosexual [b]FEARS ⫻[/b] That someone will see through his charade as a confident businessman, for the coward and failure he sees himself as. [b]REPUTATION ⫻[/b] Popular Car Salesman in Araminta. Owner of one of the City’s dealerships. Bit of a smooth talker. [b]QUIRKS ⫻[/b] Slight limp from an injury to his right leg, that gets more pronounced with exertion and cold weather. He always tries to look his best. He will go to lengths to make sure his appearance is always his best in public. [b]FLAWS ⫻[/b] Fear of failure. Abel is currently stuck in a rut. Since the death of his parents in a car accident and his dropping out of college, he’s been drifting. He runs the Car Dealership in town because it’s easy. He has a fear of perception and will go to lengths to make it appear that he has everything under control. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"I used to think breaking my leg was the best thing that ever happened to me. That it got rid of the expectations, from the city, from the school, from my parents...Now that they are gone and I’m surrounded by what they built, I’d give anything to have them back."[/i] Abel Connell is the son of Mathew Connell and Susana Almeda. The Connell family has lived in the city for generations, usually active members of the community, marrying locally. The fact that Mathew choose to marry a woman he’d met in Portugal was at the time a small point of controversy in the community. Able was mostly shielded from this growing up, but he struggled a little at times to make friends. That all changed when he started playing for the football team. His success on the field brought him friends, but with it came anxiety at being the focus of attention and whether he was really good enough. On his way back from a game he was involved in a car accident. The accident broke his right leg and ended his career in football. Thankfully he did well enough in school to go to college where he went to study Business and Economics. While there he took an interest in Linguistics and Ancient Languages. Midway through his second year his parents were killed in a car accident. It broke him and he dropped out of college, returned to Araminta. He took up ownership of his parents business and has been selling cars ever since. He is an active member of the religious community in Araminta, attending church on Sundays, but more out of appealing to customers than any real belief. Abel isn’t too worried about this Orange-Eye killer. He lives at his parents' house, a bit out of town. Unless he’s dining a client his usual commute is done via his pickup. He was a little more aware during his journey though, something that saved his life. While stuck in traffic on his way home he noticed a strange cloud block out the light. For some primal reason he became deathly afraid of the cloud. He rolled up his windows and locked his doors. Moments later the cloud descended onto the traffic. A swarm of moths consumed everything. The sound of their wings almost deafening. In the brief glimpses of the outside world, he saw people ripped out of their cars by some invisible force. Dragged off into the Swarm and darkness. The Swarm eventually breaks into his truck and he feels a force grab him. Then without warning its gone. The Swarm disappeared without a trace accept for the destruction left in its wake. Abel reported what he had seen to the police along with other witnesses, but he was dismissed as stressed out from the pile up. At the start of the story he has decided to take a few days off from the business to try and figure out whether it was stress or what he saw was real. [h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Just because I could sell a car to anyone, doesn’t mean everyone wants one."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [b][Salesman] ⫻[/b] Abel is a smooth talker. When he speaks to you he makes you the center of his world. He makes you feel important and he isn’t afraid to use this in tricking you into buying something, either a car or himself. [b][Mechanic] ⫻[/b] Abel spent a lot of time at the dealership growing up. He grew up with cars and along with a pretty extensive knowledge of cars, he’s pretty much dealt with every car problem under the sun. [b][Languages] ⫻[/b] Abel picked up a passion for languages in college. He’d always flirted with the idea. Growing up he spoke Portuguese and English pretty fluently, but it wasn’t until College that he was able to make it his passion. In his spare time he still reads up on the subject. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] EXTRA-NORMAL ABILITIES [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"Quote about supernatural here here"[/i] [indent][indent] For now, leave this part blank. [/indent][/indent] [h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3] [i]"RANDOM QUOTE."[/i] [indent][indent]Anything else? Themesong? Random notes? Foreshadowing???[/indent][/indent] [/hider]