||6'0||174 lbs||Hazel-Green eyes||Chocolate brown||Tawny||||Name|| Balthazar 'Lensman' Valentine
||Age|| 24
||Gender|| Male
||Sexual Orientation|| Demi-sexual
||Background|| Balthazar comes from a rather...odd family to say the least. He was born in the United Kingdom but his parents moved back out to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA when he was eleven.
His parents are free loving, slightly insane and morally ambiguous people. He is the eldest of three siblings, with a younger sister who is married with two children and a younger brother still in school.
His early years were for the most part uneventful, everything was swings and roundabouts. His parents raised him and his siblings to have good manners, be open minded, be kind to everyone and everything as well as to always express themselves...just like they did. Their household was a meat, dairy and pet free zone full of hemp products and strange artifacts from different corners of the world.
Balthazar like most kids struggled through high school, if his bizarre name wasn't enough to pull attention, his family's lifestyle was. Over time Balthazar started to listen less to his parents teachings and learn more from what he could observe whilst staying as low on the radar as possible. Once school was over he had moved out of his parents house into a new lifestyle working on a dude ranch in Malibu, Pennysylvania. From here he worked, interacted with people and took a part time course in Photography.
He gave relationships a try but none of them have lasted more than a few months. He's spent the last few years up on the dude ranch with his dog Dusk, working the trails, participating in cattle drives and caring for the livestock. He's been told numerous times that he's better than animals than he is with people, his co-workers tend to seek him out if anything seems amiss with any of the animals or some of them are proving to be a handful. In return he tends to go to his co-workers to ask for advice or help with difficult or confusing human guests...
He also runs a small side business out of the ranch, selling photographs of the landscape and the ranch's guests. His eye for photographs, coined him the nickname Lensman. He specializes in nature and scenic photography but dabbles in time lapse, motion and spontaneous photography as well.
Balthazar is ready to move on with his life, he doesn't often share them but he has plans for the future, dreams he wants to fulfill. That said, with his 24th birthday a week away and the impending exposure to romantic drama...his life could be about to take the turn he's been waiting for.
||Personality|| Balthazar could be described as an adaptable guy. He lacks a sense of self. So he strives to master the art of blending in and shapes his personality to suit the people around him. If his perception fails him, he'll often go down the trial and error path until he finds a way to fit in with people.
As a rule of thumb, he tends to keep his opinions to himself if he thinks he'll offend someone and is generally the quiet guy sat on the sidelines, observing and simply enjoying being around other people. He's got a good sense of humour and likes nothing more than being able to laugh or amuse other people.
He isn't very open about himself and will often only share 'surface' information with other people basically things that don't have the potential of being used against him or cause him any discomfort in the future.
He leads people to believe he doesn't mind being alone, he's willing to go with the flow, he doesn't need to be acknowledged and that he's not afraid of much. He's conscientious and good at remembering details about the people he meets, simple things for example likes or dislikes, favourite colors etc.
The only thing he openly admits is his dislike of physical contact, particularly what he calls 'casual' hugging.
||What they look for in a partner|| Balthazar is demi-sexual and as such does not experience attraction in the same manner as other people. He has to form an emotional bond with someone before he'll become attracted to them.
So for him, it's all in the personality, at least to begin with, there has to be something there that he can connect too. A sense of humour, passion, creativity, goals, aspirations, kindness, curiosity, troubles, demons. For Balthazar he needs to be able to see a person for who they are and for them to learn who he is.
||Reason for joining show|| His sister. Having decided that Balthazar needed somebody to love, other than his 'four legged baby', she signed him up for the show as a surprise birthday present...and what a surprise it was.
||Other||- Balthazar is heteroromantic.
- He owns a German Shepherd,
Dusk, who is staying with his parents whilst he's on the show.
- He's still got a prominent British accent.
