
Name: Glen Michaels
Nickname: N/A
Age: 16
Birthday: March 25
Sign: Aries
Gemstone: Aquamarine
Blood Type: A+
Fav. Food: Italian Cuisine and Stroganoff
Hated Food: Anything and everything that is bland.
School: Hillworth
Hobbies: Debate: He enjoys any outlet he can find for his anger, and a debate team seemed like a good idea at his former school. He can argue and defend up and down any topic, though he doesn't particularly enjoy the research that comes with it. (*Self memo-study debate) It also gives him the chance to try strategizing, forming a plan. He has currently not joined a debate team
Movies: Glen enjoys movies such as thrillers, psychological suspense and murder movies. He's watched Shutter Island at least ten times and Unusual Suspects...well, he wouldn't be very sure. He enjoys older movies too, but surprisingly enough, it's old fashion horror movies he enjoys, by the likes of Vincent Price. He complains about current horror movies, saying they just have too much cgi to be really scary. And don't get him started on the recent onslaught of remakes. He and his cousin watch them together, so it's mostly Nicky (his cousin) who is the victim of his complaints, but they both tend to give as good as they take. He's thought about making a sort of blog though, or perhaps a podcast.
Cooking: Though he is difficult to get along with and protrudes an air of danger, he does possess a softer side, which emerges as cooking. A skill taught to him by his dad in his earlier years, both as a way for Glen to be able to take care of himself when older and to bond, Glen uses it now to control his mood whenever something particularly annoying bothers him or he's been in another fight. It's also a very sentimental thing to him, thinking of all the times he spent cooking with his dad and occasionally his mom. He cooks for himself and his father somedays, and maybe his aunt and cousin if they come to visit, he has also considered cooking classes, mostly because he's interested in making pastries lately.
Virtues:
What's good about me?
Ambitously Determined:Glen tries to be the best,in hopes of soothing his low self-esteem. He's trying to reach for the top, to be sometihng his mother can be proud, out of sheer determination to impress her. When he fails it's a strong blow at his self-esteem, and he becomes more pushy, more determined to be heard and seen.
Assertive If Glen has learned anything, it's that you have to make yourself heard to reach for anything, do everything it takes but within the parameters of the law. He feels this mindset will benefit him in his chosen career path of being a policeman, so long as he doesn't push going to juvvie, and the reason he din't fight his transfer to Hillworth. He's alwas willing to take risks though, if he has to. Another thing he feels makes a good cop or detective.
Risk-taker: The need to put just a bit of risk is always there. It's an act of rebellion against his mother and father probably, but it does benefit and he doesn't entirely toe the line of the law, knowing if he was arrested even once, his planned career path would never be seen to fruition. Though, if he can help at least one kid from bullying off campus, that makes him feel better. But risk requires diligence, which he has in abundance. And patience, which is improving.
Flaws:
What's bad about me?
Possessive: Glen has a terrible possessive streak towards any close friends or family, often times becoming jealous when they associate with anyone but him. And not just a passive aggressive jealousy, a rather violent, ‘punch you in the face if you even look at my friend/family that way again’, way. Oddly, he’s not this way towards material possessions, just people.
Short-Tempered: It’s not very hard to make Glen mad, and just as difficult to cool him down. Most everything will set him off too. Bad food, bad novels, movies that he's pretty sire are telling him something negative, others being weak and lacking the drive to accomplish goals or stand up for themselves. This more than likely has to do with Glen's own skewed perception of himself, and is transfereing his negative feelings towards himself onto others.
Arrogant: To protect himself he has developed a supreme arrogance,letting everyone believe he is better than everyone else. Alot of it comes from an exaggerated form of how he percieves his mothers interactions with him, and a small portion comes from watching movies and learning how to create a mask, acting just like the mean, in power character. He becomes more virtiolic, antagonistic the closer one gets to cracking through.