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[b]Character Name:[/b]
[indent]Chase Robinson[/indent]

[b]Age:[/b]
[indent]20[/indent]

[b]Major:[/b]
[indent]Creative Writing[/indent]

[b]Personality:[/b]
[indent]Chase is a pleasant person to be around. While he doesn’t stand out too much, he always has a polite smile and doesn’t say anything too offensive. Part of this is because he is an introvert, favoring putting his nose in a book then engaging in conversation. He doesn’t like to rock the boat as he grew up in a household of fights. As such he tends to keep to the status quo.[/indent]
[indent]Chase is a staunch skeptic. While he finds the stories of folklore and mythology interesting and good stories, he does view them as simply stories. Perhaps one of the reasons he writes fantasy is for escapism. Chase views his life as pretty mundane, save the family troubles. Chase tends to avoid these things, keeping his mind on his dreams.[/indent]
[indent]While Chase doesn’t mention it much, he is bisexual. He kept it on the down low back in his hometown as he didn’t want people talking, or his family finding out. Chase is not very good at romantic relationships, having not dated anyone since his senior year of high school. But he is still looking, hoping that with as many people living in Olympia that he could find a match.[/indent]

[b]Background:[/b]
[indent]Chase was born in the small town of Krant, a few hours drive from Olympia. Chase was one of four kids, born to a school teacher and an entrepreneur. Chase enjoyed growing up in his small town, getting to know all the residents very well. Chase’s father would try multiple times to put Krant on the map, starting all kinds of businesses and creating many different products. The repeated failure of these ventures put a strain on Chase’s parents’ relationship.[/indent]
[indent]Chase would escape this conflict through the written word. He would quickly make his way through most of the books in his small elementary school, before moving onto the used bookstore that sat in downtown Krant. Chase would spend many an hour perusing the many overstocked shelves of the store. Even when a big box bookstore opened in Krant as part of a new development, Chase would still favor the independent store.[/indent]
[indent]In his later years at elementary/middle school, Chase would begin dabbling in writing his own stories. They would function as an escape for Chase as his parents’ relationship got worse. Chase would not be able escape the whispers of small town gossip about his family. Eventually it reached a boiling point, and the summer before starting high school, Chase, his siblings, and his mother would move out of Krant.[/indent]
[indent]They would move to West Hartings, a small city much closer to the big city of Olympia. Chase’s mother would get a job at a high school just as Chase started at the same school. Chase would fall in with the artsy crowd, favoring the language arts. It was in these teen years both decided he wanted to write for a living and also became a skeptic. But conversely he also came to view supernatural stories as good fodder for stories.[/indent]
[indent]Chase would end up winning a short story writing course for his school district. This confirmed to Chase that writing was his true calling. But he didn’t dive in immediately, instead after graduating he decided to travel the world. For many months he would backpack across Europe and Asia alongside some friends. Chase would find these cultures and superstitions interesting, incorporating them into his writing.[/indent]
[indent]When Chase returned to America, he applied to Evergreen State College. He was quickly accepted, prompting him to move to Olympia a month before classes would start. Chase found a cheap apartment, and would find employment at an independent book store much like the one in Krant. Chase would immediately go head first into his studies.[/indent]
[indent]Chase would manage to maintain good grades through his first year. It was then during his second year that he would decide to take a mythology course. Chase mostly took it as a form of research for the fantasy stories he wrote. But he would find Professor Abraham very interesting, getting annoyed when anyone called him Doctor Specter. In fact he greatly enjoyed the course, even if he viewed it all as stories and nothing else.[/indent]

[b]Favorite Ghost:[/b]
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[b]Do You Believe in UFO's, Astral Projections, Mental Telepathy, ESP, Clairvoyance, Spirit Photography, Telekinetic Movement, Full Trance Mediums, The Loch Ness Monster and The Theory of Atlantis?:[/b]
[indent]While they are all cool concepts, I do realize that they probably don’t exist. But they make great fiction.[/indent]
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