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General Info:

Name: Jude Harrow

Nickname: SpringTooth [on the internet only!]

Age: 17

Birthday: September 20th, 1995

Sign: Virgo

Gemstone: Sapphire

Blood Type: AB

Fav. Food: Coffee

Hated Food: Kraft Mac'n'Cheese

School: Meadowview



Hobbies:

Dear Diary - Writing - Most young men don't keep a diary. Jude does -- almost religiously. He writes something in it almost every day. This is rarely a recap of his day, tending toward poetry and fiction instead, and is also rarely particularly good, but someone told him once that you have to write to be a writer, so he does his best. But doesn't have the guts to join the school paper, just yet. Jude calls it his Journal -- but no, really he doesn't call it anything because he wouldn't admit to anyone that it exists because then they might want to read it, heaven forfend. So it's his private book and likely hidden on a shelf somewhere.

Color Me Orangered - Social News - Jude loves the internet and spends a somewhat ridiculous amount of time on Reddit in particular. Reddit is a social news site that has been broken down into areas of interest, where people can post interesting links and reply to them. It is a very male-centric site, with a pretty big male/female ratio, and it tends toward mouthiness, humor, good writing, and efforts to build karma by posting things that other people like. Jude probably hangs out primarily on /r/writing, which is basically a place he can share his writing and get replies without anyone knowing who he is. Essentially it is a secondary persona that no one IRL would know is him.

He enjoys the knowledge it gives him about politics and the goings-on around town, the creative outlet it gives for him to share his writing without sharing his identity, and in general the freedom offered by anonymity. He's much louder and more forceful online as "SpringTooth" than he is in real life as "Jude Harrow".

Mad Men - Fashion - Not fashion week fashion, not haute couture, not runway -- but the trends in everyday fashion do fascinate him. Jude loves a collared shirt and a tie and a vest, fedoras and well-fitted slacks, shiny loafers, fancy sneakers, tie tacks, cuff links. He's not afraid of feminine colors like pink and pale yellow, bold patterns, stripes and paisley. Out of school, he will indulge as much in this as he can without getting too horribly mocked. It is work for Jude to stay well-dressed. He doesn't have a lot of money, so he probably alters a lot of his clothing, and is all about finding sales rack items that he can take home and fuss with.

Java Jive - Coffee - Not all coffee is good, and Jude is well aware. He generally won't waste his time with crap coffee, preferring instead to make his own and carry it with him in a battered old hand-me-down travel mug. However, he spends a lot of time out of school at a local coffee shop, doing both homework and personal work there and only going home when he absolutely has to.



Physical Description:

Eyes: Deep, dark grey-brown, narrow under heavy brows - and with just as heavy eyelashes.

Hair: Red-blond with a slight curl, cropped relatively short and gelled into place.

Face: Sharp, with a strong jaw. The line of his mouth is narrow and serious, most of the time.

Body: Small, just a few inches over five feet, and slim: a fine, bird-like frame that leaves him looking somewhat fragile, with long fingered hands.

Clothes: He goes to Meadowview. Alas. Orange shorts would not be his choice, given the option, but he really can't afford private school. He might, though, wear a tie instead of the sailor's sash around his neck, and avoids the sneakers as best he can.

Virtues:

Mature beyond his years - Jude's first job was at the age of fifteen, with parental encouragement, and since then he has held quite a few after-school positions. He manages his own finances, cashes his own checks and knows how to handle bills around the house, since his mother always seems to forget to pay them. He has experience with cash registers and espresso machines, with hand-sewing and sewing machines, all kinds of basic life skills that many teenagers haven't needed or bothered to learn. Together, all of this makes him seem much more like he's in his mid-twenties or older still than sixteen: he is an adult in a young man's body, and while he suffers the problems associated with hormones and lack of confidence, bullies and teasing, Jude is mature in many ways that other boys his age are not.

Everything has its place - Every page of Jude's notes is precise and tidy, his handwriting spindly and neat, his books arranged carefully in his locker. He keeps an incredibly detailed day planner with every due date and every class color coded and kept current. His half of his room at home is unnaturally clean for a teenaged boy, and his clothing is always impeccable. It's important for him to impose order where he can, to make up for all the small places where he can't. It means he very rarely loses track of an upcoming due date, and can be relied upon to send out reminders as required -- and it also means that when things fall out of place, he has a tendency to crumble to pieces with them. The major aspects of Jude's life seem so frequently out of control that he keeps an iron grip on everything he can.

A sympathetic ear - Generally quiet in nature, Jude serves as an excellent sounding board and brainstorming partner. He will listen to anyone's problems without commenting, perfectly willing to take some time when friends need a little rant. More than that, he'll do it without judgment, without offering suggestions, without trying to fix. He quietly sympathizes and offers exactly what someone with a problem needs. He is reassuring in the moment, and a locked safe when it's passed.

Million and one ideas - It's a personal virtue, but the simple fact of the matter is that Jude's writing is rather good. He is not an epic storyteller, but instead finds inspiration from the world around him and infuses truth into the things he creates. He is interested in the world around him, and likes to explore, to learn more, saving bits and pieces for the future. This is a large part of why he spends so much free time in a coffee shop, people watching, and reading, and it also leads to a simple understanding of people and the way things interconnect.

Flaws:

Internal Dissonance - The worst of Jude's flaws might be the fact that the way he presents himself to other people is largely a facade. Most students at school believe him to come from a fairly wealthy family, due to his manners and attitude and his choice of clothing. In reality, he comes from a household that scrabbles to make ends meet, and the face he turns forward is cultivated. He doesn't take people home with him. It's a part of his life he keeps separate, a part he wishes desperately that he could change, but since he can't he merely keeps his mouth shut about it. He'll likely lie to friends, in a fairly thoughtless, quiet way, or at the very least agree with their assumptions and carry them on. However, he is unlikely to talk about himself when he could talk about something else, so it wouldn't come down to spreading rumors: absent misdirection as opposed to active untruths.

The road more travelled - Given the choice between taking a chance that could result in something amazing or sticking to the routine and missing out on incredible possibilities, Jude will almost always take the easy, boring route. He lusts after adventure, but has been told so many times that it's not meant for him that it has settled in and broken down any ambitions beyond the practical.

A simmering pot - Jude doesn't show a lot of emotion face-to-face, coming across at first meeting as overly serious, quiet, and more than a bit prudish. Worse, though, he internalizes to such a degree that sometimes he loses track of what he does feel, shrugging things off and smothering his own emotions. Instead of spilling small grievances or letting off steam, he bottles until he explodes in an entirely irrational way. Usually, this means that he rants on Reddit, trolls forums, or spreads his frustration in other ways that only make it worse until he regains control: miserable and hating himself a little.

Just a small fish - Jude's view of himself is [not entirely inaccurately] that of a small fish in a big pond. While he would like to be the protagonist of the story, instead he finds himself continually pushed to the back of the line -- and as a result, he has a tendency to miss out on the glory and the action. The worst of this, however, is that he lacks the self-confidence to step forward, and justifies his own passivity by diving into his writing. He is a writer. Writers don't necessarily need to step up into things, themselves. They can store the experiences and create their own heros.

Sisyphus's Notes on the Opposing Faction:

APOLLO ASTEROID SENSHI:
Asclepius
Hephaistos
Heracles
Hypnos
Midas
Sisyphus
Zephyr

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