[hider=Chester Dahlby][center][color=d2b570]Chick/Chickadee[/color][/center]
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[color=82a17d][b]Chester Dahlby[/b][/color]
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[color=ece4d5]15 3/4 | Male | 5'4" | Proud | Sophomore (Incoming)[/color]
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[color=ece4d5]Dislikes[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]People who think having facial hair is a personality trait. It's seriously not impressive that you have hair and chances are they don't even groom it.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]People that say 'like' and 'um' when public speaking. It's slightly more bearable in casual conversation but otherwise it is really irksome.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]People who think sixty seconds under the water counts as a shower. Newsflash: masking it with bodyspray makes it worse.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Sushi. Everyone he's ever met only pretends to enjoy sushi because it makes them seem cultured when in fact their only sushi experience is some two day old garbage at a Chinese buffet. Right next to the french fries.[/i][/color][/sub]
[center][color=ece4d5]Likes[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Stargazing and astrology but absolutely NOT horoscopes. It's calming and humbling and inspiring to look at the stars and read the various constellation stories. It's dumb to think that because you were born two days before someone else that you're mortal enemies now because the starsigns are incompatible.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Pizza. A strict one protein, two veg style. Anymore than two proteins and/or veg and the pizza becomes inedible. Extra cheese if he's feeling particularly naughty. And yes, pineapple is acceptable but only if the meat is ham.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Buttercream cakes with rich frosting. It's like eating a pillow![/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Trashy television and trashy movies. Yes, they are bad and unrealistic but it's not a guilty pleasure when they get binged in a weekend. It's just a pleasure.[/i][/color][/sub]
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[center][color=ece4d5]skills[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Baking counts as a skill and Chester knows how to make a few cakes and his cookies have the uncanny ability to be just as delicious fresh from the oven as a few hours later...but that could just be because all cookies are good unless they have raisins in them. Drawing, specifically the design of characters and attires; Chick's sketchbook is full of characters and style. Someone close to Chick once said the sketchbook looked like something out of 'Tite Kubo's fantasies' and Chick didn't know if he should be insulted or flattered. Does it count as a skill that Chick can make his voice sound deep and gravely? It probably does only in the sense that normally his voice is part of the reason why he got the nickname 'Chick' in the first place. Chick has never lost a game of 'Six Degrees'.
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[center][color=ece4d5]gift[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Is it a gift to have an impeccable eye for fashion down to also designing and creating custom outfits for himself and others? Perhaps. Chick is something of a makeover queen and a wiz at using otherwise ordinary or drab and cheap material to create outfits that work. Has he gotten paid for this? Not yet, but the compliment and thanks is all he really needs as he does it for love and passion. That said his actual gift is knowing the name of every constellation in four different cultures along with their mythology.[/i][/color][/sub]

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[indent][color=82a17d]Perhaps the first word that comes to mind when one thinks about Chick is 'soft' but that does him a bit of discredit. Sure, his features are a bit on the softer side and he is something of an excessive hugger (which is equally as soft) but that doesn't mean he's thinskinned. In fact the opposite is true. Chick, largely by necessity, is fairly thick-skinned but even he has his limits. He can handle people making fun of him within reason - there's a difference between good natured bantering and mean spirited insults and unfortunately he had to deal with a lot of the latter to get to where he is which, incidentally, made him fairly decent at the former. Chick will [i]never[/i] insult someone purposely but he will absolutely try and make them laugh before fishing for compliments and playing the bashful, blushing bride. So to speak. 

Chick's worst trait, in his own estimation, is his uncanny ability to fall for someone [i]hard[/i] even if he knows that it can't happen or won't happen be it due to clashing orientations or the fact that people in their late thirties should absolutely not think of people underage in that way. Chick, thus, is also afraid to take a chance on matters of the heart. He might have thick skin but rejection is a terrible thing and he can't handle it, he would rather pine from the sidelines than risk it and that makes him a person with a tremendous amount of love in his heart but who thinks no one would want to love him in return. He gravitates towards compliments and hugs as something of an outlet for these feelings.  [/color][/indent]
[color=b05e4f][color=75988c]•[/color]h i s t o r y[/color]
[indent][color=82a17d] The story of Chick's birth is, by his admission, a depressing story so he prefers to simply say that his parents loved him so much that they realized they would be depriving someone else from his presence. That, of course, is a load of garbage but it sounds much nicer than 'Chick's parents were too young to be parents and rather than go through the adoption process they wanted to just leave him at the hospital for the pediatrician's to figure it out.' Fortunately, Chick had grandparents who stepped in and because of the youth of his parents, Chick's grandparents were basically the same age as everyone else's parents. That age, of course, being 'older than 30 so they might as well be ancient'. 

Chick's grandmother owns a cafe and bakery in the small mountain town where he lives. His grandfather inches closer to retirement by the day but he put in his time as the owner of a car dealership though his real joy was in assistant coaching the high school baseball team - Chick's grandfather was, prior to a car dealer, a major league baseball player; though he only lasted two and a half seasons it was enough to go to the World Series and if it wasn't for him blowing out his arm in game seven he might've had a much more prosperous career. 

Though Chick enjoyed baseball (and still does), he felt more comfortable helping out in his grandmother's cafe. Chick knew the drink menu by heart by age seven and by age eight he could make half the drinks on said menu though he personally didn't enjoy drinking them. But what eight year old liked coffee? 

Chick knew he was 'different' at a young enough age to where his grandparents weren't surprised when they had the talk. While they were supportive (his grandfather was, at the time, visibly disappointed but he made the attempt to understand), his schoolmates were not. At first they made fun of his height and his 'chick voice', then they made fun of him wearing 'chick colors' to school, which then became making fun of him for showing up one day having clearly put makeup on just to see what it was like, and it wasn't much longer before 'chick' became something else entirely. Middle school was torturous. One of the faculty members at his school just gave the advice of "act normal" which was what initially saw Chick look for other places to learn. The bullying grew so constant and harmful - escalating beyond words - that Chick made the choice to seek out private school. Fortunately, Wellington allowed him to enter as a sophomore. 

While initially preferring to be called 'Chuck' because his grandfather thought it would make him sound 'tougher', Chick has taken the derogatory 'chick' moniker and made it his own. [/color]
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[color=b05e4f][color=75988c]•[/color]what did you pack?[/color]
[indent][color=82a17d]Multiple sketchbooks, A few books on star charts, three tupperware containers of homebaked cookies (chocolate chip, peanut butter, and sugar), a smaller container of edible cookie dough just 'cuz, Skin, hair, and beautycare products, a portable telescope, two extra suitcases for fashion design and creation. [/color][/indent]

[indent][right][hider=extras][color=B8C5B3]Chick might wear the girls uniform if he feels so inclined.
No Moons. No Stars.
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