ANDREW DERRYN | DISTRICT THREE {FIN}

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Sixteen | Male | District Three

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appearance

Andrew is someone that cannot be missed in a crowd. Though he is small, he is never mistaken for another person considering he seems to stand out more than most. His features just sort of stick out, from his brown hair to his honey amber eyes. His skin tone is light in color and contrasts with his hair, which is a dark, chocolate brown. It is heavy and falls slightly ruffled to his head, ending at a little past his ears in straight locks and at the nape of his neck in the back. His rounded, snubby nose is slightly crooked because of the time he broke it falling down the staircase. Andrew has a bit of a feminine figure, most of his clothing demure and hardly something denoted as masculine. Even though he seems a bit girlish at times, he doesn’t set out to change this, accepting the fact that he can’t exactly change what he looks like as much as he wished to.

This little lad will always look like a child, no matter what he does. He will never look his age, and he has given up on it. As much as he'd like it, that cute little face will never somehow be wiped off with window wash or something. Andrew’s eyes always seem larger and rounder than they really are, having to do with his somewhat feminine eyelashes. The irises are a mild, medium green in hue. People find that looks like a regular teenage boy if anything with his t-shirts and jeans. One thing that you will always find about him though, is the fact that he tries to keep clean. Not so much a neat freak as he likes to keep himself orderly and prefers not to be caked in mud as much as he does not completely mind it. If only he could be neat for once.

Andrew stands around five foot one, and he is rather fragile, mostly just skin and bones, regardless of how voracious his appetite might be. He seems alarmingly skinny, with a branchy and unfinished sort of look in the length of his arms and legs. His legs are particularly gangly in the way of a young deer, as if he only just stumbled across his growth spurt. Narrow shoulders and little feet along with rather knobbly knees are unfortunately in his possesion. What makes up for his lack of strength and childish appearance might be the fact that he is fast on his feet and maybe a bit more vocal than he gives himself credit for. When he's nervous, Andrew blinks a little too often and he tends to shift around a lot and fidget. His voice is often very quiet and subdued.

personality

The kid’s confidence is low. When your head is stuck somewhere else constantly and you don’t pay attention to where you’re going you’re bound to (surprise surprise) trip and fall flat on your face. And Andy has got his head in the clouds all the time, if anything else. He’s a dreamer by nature-- though, unfortunately, that’s usually where it ends. His dreams, wishes, wants, desires-- they don’t often get fulfilled. His self-confidence is much too low for something like that. He has a way of wanting something so badly that he can’t get his mind off of it, but tends to tell himself that he’ll fail before he has a chance to even attempt it. No, Andrew doesn’t trust his own judgment very well. So he tends to mope to himself about the things he’d like to do, but doesn’t have the courage to face what he honestly fears more than anything else.

He’s a sticky-note fiend because of his forgetful ways. Unfortunately, he’s got a relatively low level of organization skills. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily) Andrew is quite the obedient little fellow. You tell him to throw something out and he won’t argue (out loud) with you, and he’ll do it right away. The only problem is that he’s willing to follow even complete strangers’ orders, but everything else as well. The guy is passive to an extreme, he’s a submissive little bugger and he’d just as soon roll over for someone and avoid getting his tush kicked. He is a coward. There’s no nice way to say that. He’s not fearful really, or even unkind. He just is not a courageous person. When the going gets tough, he gets going-- in the opposite direction of said toughness. He’s prone to running away and saving his own skin merely because he has absolutely no confidence in his own strength.

At least he’s not quite shameless about it. He hates his cowardice, sits in a corner and basically cries his little heart out over the fact that he won’t face the scarier side of life without flinching. The only thing is, like so many other things about himself, he doesn’t even attempt to change it. Andy is kindhearted, though one might suspect that it’s just to avoid getting his face smashed in. He’s constantly polite to others, and very rarely ever uses things such as swear words. Raising his voice at someone? Oh please, he’s too passive for something like that in the first place. A tad bit on the shy side, when Andrew first meets people he tends to be very edgy. He gets in a certain “mindset” when it comes to professional things. If he has to talk to someone then he’ll do it without much problem. He’ll worry and fret about it, yes, but he’ll still do it.

history

This kid was born in the late fall to a simple middle class family with middle class hopes and middle class dreams-- not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. Andrew’s parents are simple people, it doesn’t take that much to please them both at all. Give them their order and structure and they’re quite happy with everything. They were a loving enough family, growing up in their part of the district wasn’t exactly filled with strife and misery. The place is a nice little town and really it wasn’t a life to sniff at. A nice home to raise a baby in, what more could two average parents wish for? The only problem was that, from the moment he was suckling that little bottle his parents took a rather interesting route with parenting. Which was, basically, to throw as many futures the kids’ way as possible and pray to god something awesome and fantastic stuck.

Now, one could hardly blame said parents for this. After all, everyone wants their kid to be the smartest, strongest, fastest, prettiest-- it’s not uncommon for parents to want their children to excel, and Andrew’s parents pushed for it constantly. They pushed him to go to training, to classes, to anything that someone could possibly be talented at. Primary School and Elementary School started the first of a long line of town hopping. They bounced from one home, to another home, to another one, back where they started-- the problem with Andrew’s parents and their “Grand Plan for Success” for their dear son was the fact that they kept pulling him out of schools in a desperate attempt to find the perfect one.

The one that would set him on the path to success-- not that they really knew what that path was, mind you. And thus comes part of the reason Andrew tends to not try to do anything, just as he’d start to get good at something he’d fail at it just once and his parents would decide that his future in that area was compromised. Insert dragging him out of it and hauling him to some other school. The kid basically ended up being a school whore, he was a slave to his studies. Had to be, realistically, if he wanted to pass anything at all. Bouncing from place to place and transferring grades all the time is hard as anything, but of course Andrew didn’t complain. He was too submissive for that.

Now, if you’ve ever gone to any school you know it’s hard as hell to fit in as a new student. These people have grown up together since kindergarten, and entering without those premade childhood bonds meant that you’d better basically be a charismatic god (or goddess) if you wanted to fit in. Unfortunately switching schools basically every other month meant that Andrew was really bad at making new friends. So he was the odd man out, in the teeny tiny school. It didn’t help either, that he came out of the closet around the age of fifteen years old. A small town often is set in its ways, the people that live there tend to have a bit of an… er… old fashioned mindset.


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